Previously I posted an announcement to the list about a AHCQR grant concerning rural connectivity and health information exchange and requested information from the list. Thanks to all that responded and/or forwarded the announcement to interested parties.
I made a presentation to the grant committee and they wanted further details about projects using open source software. I am posting this list because they are specifically interested in open source solutions.
I mentioned contact with or some minimal knowledge of the following projects:
MA-Share - Massachusetts electronic prescribing project
Indiana Health Information Exchange
Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County Maryland
ARCH SHARE - Alliance for Rural Community Health Securing Health Access and Records Exchange project in Mendocino California
Connecting for Health Framework of the Markle Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health e-Technologies Initiative
EHealth Initiative for National Information Exchange
Saskatchewan provincial health network and Toronto Health Network
Specifically the committee was interested in knowing:
1. Which of these projects were mostly rural or were designed with minimal infrastructure hospitals as participants?
2. Which projects included participants even if they had different proprietary hospital or office systems?
3. Comments on logistics of maintenance of open source systems in rural areas with minimal local expertise? How much can be done remotely? How much requires local presence?
4. Advice on how to evaluate and chose a system with these constraints.
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the list, if information is generalizable.
Thanks for your collaboration.
Bruce Slater, MD, MPH
Medical Director Computerized Decision Support
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
