Montana Frontier Healthcare Network

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Montana Frontier Healthcare Network
Lead Partner Community Hospital of Anaconda

• Cleary Waldren

HRSA All Grantees Meeting, September 2009
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Projects of Interest

• Clinical Groupware, EHR Light
• Electronic Disease Registry with CDSS
• eRx
• Data Reporting (i.e. PQRI)
• Online Visit Notes
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
• Web-Based Telemedicine
• Facilitation of Other Web-Based Services
• Provider Web Sites
• Secure Messaging
• Personal Health Records (PHR)

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Impact

• Clinical Groupware
• Improved Outcomes!
• Creates eligibility for data reporting, eRx and
  other performance-based incentives
• Health Information Exchange
• Improved Outcomes!
• Decreases Costs
• Web-Based Telemedicine
• Improved Outcomes!
• Cost Efficient and Affordable Model
• Facilitation of Other Web-Based Services
• Improved Outcomes!
• Community Awareness, Education, Patient-Enabled
  HIE

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Financial Advantages

• Shared technology and infrastructure make HIT/HIE
  affordable for frontier healthcare providers
• Cost efficient telemedicine services increase
  local patient retention
• Shared planning to qualify for ARRA and HITECH
  stimulus support for HIT investment and for
  traditional state and federal grant support

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Future Plans

• Network Expansion in areas of
• Membership
• Technology
• Services

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Advice

• Achieve meaningful operational consensus among
  administrative and clinical personnel, including
  defined implementation plans
• Be aware of rapidly evolving federal definitions
  pertaining to stimulus funding and technical
  standards when adopting new HIT