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This site contains information about state and local pilot projects for the exchange of health information among health care providers. This listing is provided for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement by the State of Florida or the Governor's Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board.
Big Bend RHIO, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare & Capital Regional Medical Center
Central Florida Network, Florida Health Care Coalition
Community Health Record, Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami
Diabetes Disease Management, Tampa Bay Partnership
ER Primary Care Management,
Lee Memorial Health Systems & Family Health Centers of SW Florida
Indigent Health Care Exchange, Good Health Network, Inc.
Medicaid ePrescribing, Agency for Health Care Administration
Northwest Florida RHIO, efileshare, LLC
Pediatric Asthma Personal Health Records, University of South Florida
Total Cancer Care, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Promoting Patient Safety with Web-Based Patient Profiles, Health First, Inc.
Pinellas RHIO, Pinellas County Health Department
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Summary of Project |
Big Bend RHIO
L. Dan Kaelin, M.D.
Physical Address:Vascular Surgery Associates
1405 Centerville Rd., Suite 5000
Tallahassee, FL 32308
Tel: 850-877-8539
Fax: (850) 222-2223
LKaelin@bbrhio.com |
This organization consists of 14 major stakeholders which include both hospitals, major providers, payers and a local technology partner. The group was formed to plan, design and implement a health information technology road map for Tallahassee and surrounding communities. The BBRHIO is focused on identifying and rapidly leveraging existing technology opportunities while encouraging and accelerating implementation of new capabilities for the community at large. To date the organization has identified five projects for implementation in 2005.
The BBRHIO will follow federal, state and other regional initiatives to align its roadmap with successful outcomes and forthcoming interoperability standards. The road map will evolve but will do so dynamically as to encompass primary and acute care as well as all community stakeholders.
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Florida Health Care Coalition - Central Florida Network
Richard Schooler
4401 Vineland Road
Suite A-10
Orlando, FL 32811
Tel: 407-425-9500
Fax: 407-425-9559
becky@cfhcc.com
http://www.flhcc.com/index.cfm |
This project's goal is to form a RHIO in Orlando. The Coalition wants to create an electronic health record network among providers and physicians in the Orlando area and push interoperability for health care professionals. The group is drafting a vision statement and preliminary planning document.
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Jackson Memorial and U of Miami
Medical School - Building the Community Health Record
James " Sandy" Phillips
JACKSON HEALTH SYSTEM
1611 NW 12th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33136
SPhillips@um-jmh.org
http://um-jmh.org/default.cfm
Huy Nguyen M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Cogon Systems
Box 13025
Pensacola, FL 32591
850-429-1633
http://www.cogonsystems.com |
Phase I of the Community Health Record pilot project will identify and quantify the benefits that Jackson Health System and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine can obtain by leveraging existing information technology infrastructures between a busy Miami outpatient clinic and inpatient and specialty clinics that provide care to an underserved urban population. Two healthcare applications are used in Phase I. Cogon’s MOMENT OF CARE™ information system integrates clinical data from existing healthcare information systems and presents clinical data to end-user clinicians via a web portal onto desktop computers or onto mobile devices. Gold Standard Media’s eMPOWERx allows physicians to obtain patient medication profile, prescribe medication electronically to accepting pharmacies, and to view drug information.
Selected electronic clinical data from different existing information systems will be integrated into the information system. Standard electronic security such as encrypted data and password protection will be employed to protect patient privacy and ensure HIPAA compliance.
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| Tampa Bay RHIO - Regional Diabetes Management Initiative
Russ Thomas
Tampa Bay Partnership
4300 W. Cypress Street, Suite 250
Tampa Bay, FL 33607
Tel: 813-878-2208
Fax 813-872-9356
nmealey@tampabay.org |
The mission of this project is to develop and implement a health information system which will assist in promoting patient compliance in diabetes care and permit effective coordination of that care and its co-morbidities among the HII Client Parties' healthcare providers. The project will develop a sustainable model for an effective comprehensive health information exchange for the Tampa Bay area that will facilitate the delivery of quality healthcare to the citizens of the area.
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| Lee Memorial Hospital Emergency Department and Family Health Centers of SW Florida - ER Primary Care Management
Mike Smith
Chief Information Officer
Lee Memorial Hospital
2776 Cleveland Ave.
Ft. Myers, FL 33901
239-332-1111
mike.smith@leememorial.org |
This project is in the planning stages. The goal is to guide the uninsured and the indigent to primary care facilities rather than the emergency department at Lee Memorial Hospital. The project will work with Family Health Centers of SW Florida as the primary care facility in Lee County. Implementation of electronic health records will facilitate the passage of patient information between the hospital and the primary care offices.
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The Community Foundation of Central Florida and Good Health Network, Inc. - Indigent Health Care Exchange
Brian Paige
Good Health Network, Inc.
218 Jackson Street
Maitland, FL 32751
Tel: 407-629-0304
Fax: 407-539-2784
info@ghnet.us
http://www.ghnet.us/ |
The Community Foundation of Central Florida in collaboration with Good Health Network is developing a standards-based system of Healthcare Information Services that integrates secure network management features into an enterprise-wide business process application. Its goal is to reduce medical costs while giving individuals electronic access to health planning tools to promote improved health.
The focus of the demonstration project is to personalize the healthcare management process for patients with chronic illnesses by involving patients in the management of their disease through self-care. The project will assist patients in tracking and monitoring their disease through access to their health data.
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Medicaid ePrescribing
Mr. Russ Thomas
Gold Standard
320 West Kennedy Blvd.
Suite 400
Tampa, FL 33606
Phone: (813) 258-4747
Toll Free: (800) 375-0943
Fax: (813) 259-1585
http://www.gsm.com/ |
Medicaid is now in its second year of its Gold Standard trial program with 3000 total physicians using PDAs that can access real-time patient specific information from the Medicaid fee-for-service pharmacy database (excludes managed care).
The application provides drug information, a 100-day complete medication histories of patients, clinical alerts for interactions, therapeutic duplications and allergies, and full electronic prescribing functionality. Gold Standard estimates that its system saved $700 per doctor every month during its first year of the trial.
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Northwest Florida RHIO
Vinnie Whibbs
Efileshare.com, LLC
Seville Tower, 4th Floor
226 S. Palafox Street
Pensacola, Florida 32502
vinnie.whibbs@efileshare.com
www.efileshare.com |
In July of 2002, NW Florida hospitals and physician offices began using a secure web-based community network to help streamline the transfer/sharing of patient information between providers. As of May 2005, 100% of the area hospitals, greater than 75% of the physician offices and a variety of independent service providers are now using the secure community based network to process referrals/consults, order outpatient services and send/receive test results. The next step for NW Florida is to formalize it RHIO structure and to extend the network to cover pharmacy & patient communications in the area.
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Pediatric Asthma PHR Project
Donna Lee Ettel, Ph.D.
Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP
National Child Health Data Standards
Program Director
University of South Florida
College of Medicine
601 4th Street South, CRI 1008
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Tel: 727-553-3660
Fax: 727-553-3666
http://usfpeds.hsc.usf.edu/cri/flichq/home.htm |
This project is in the planning stages. The goal of the project is to target pediatric asthma as one indicator of health quality in children. The project is considering a model that relies on electronic health information at the point of clinical service with a provider to track children's health. This information might also be used as personal health records accessible via the Internet for children's parents.
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Total Cancer Care
William Dalton, M.D.
Moffitt Research Center(MRC)
12902 Magnolia Drive
Tampa, Fl 33612
(813) 972-4673
http://www.moffitt.usf.edu/ |
The goal of this project is to create a delivery system that will integrate new technologies into the standard of care and develop evidence-based guidelines for treatment of cancer throughout the state. The demonstration projects will focus on early diagnosis and prognosis of specific cancers using molecular diagnostic techniques in alliance with statewide affiliates of the Moffitt Center, communities and patients.
The project intends to integrate new technologies into standard cancer care, measure health outcomes of patient survival and quality of life, develop evidence based guidelines for cancer care and network information systems for real-time access to guidelines and recommendations. Affiliates in the project will treat about 35-40% of cancer cases in Florida.
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Brevard County Health Information Alliance (BCHIA) & He alth First - Promoting Patient Safety with Web Based Patient Profiles
Rosemary D. Laird, M.D.
Medical Director
Cape Canaveral Hospital
701 W. Cocoa Beach Causeway
Cocoa Beach, Fl 32931
rosemary.laird@health-first.org
Christi Rushnell, MBA, CPHIMS
Information Privacy and Security Officer HIT
Director of Information
Systems Health First
Office (321)434-5513
Pager (321)634-0600
Rockledge, FL 32955
christi.rushnell@health-first.org
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Supported by grant 1 P20 HS014885-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health First Aging Institute; Florida Institute of Technology; and 211 Brevard have worked as collaborative partners to plan and design a health information technology system that is interoperable and can exchange a core set of critical patient information in a standardized usable format between non-affiliated acute care and long term care providers in Brevard County FL.
System implementation and evaluation are scheduled to take place in phases over a three year period. System testing and review will be incorporated into each phase to ensure that all components are operational and that safety and security measures for data are in place before patient information is accepted or exchanged. Year one will focus on the technical aspects of building the system architecture and implementing the selected governance infrastructure for the Alliance.
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| Pinellas RHIO
Claude Dharamraj, MD, MPH
Peter B. Gallagher Pinellas County Health Department
205 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Tel: 727-824-6931; Fax 727-820-4275
www.pinellaswellness.com
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In the planning stages, this project currently includes two components:
● An Injury Surveillance Health Information Exchange (HIE)
● Diabetes/Pediatric Asthma HIE.
The goal of the first component is to reduce the burden of injury in Pinellas County by creating a countywide injury surveillance system that interacts with existing infrastructures of bioterrorism, EMT and other existing electronic mortality/morbidity databases. The goal of the second component is to reduce the disease and economic burden of diabetes and pediatric asthma. This component will supply clinical and public health chronic disease information and data currently missing from FHIN pilot HIEs now developing under the Tampa Bay RHIO umbrella and will demonstrate how public health information/data can be utilized to provide critical health outcomes and patient health quality data in the evaluation of target HIEs. |
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