The funding is part of a new $139 million initiative by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality aimed to improve the quality of health care, increase communication among health care providers, and cut costs by funding computing and information systems.
Indiana is one of only five states in the country to receive funding to support a statewide health information network. $6.5 million of the award will support the development, implementation, and assessment of health information exchange in Indiana.
"These awards will help evolve and evaluate regional health information exchange in Indiana. We expect that health information exchange will improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that patients throughout the state will receive," said J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and Regenstrief Institute, Inc. research scientist. Dr. Overhage is president and chief executive officer of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (www.ihie.org), a not-for-profit corporation created to improve healthcare in central Indiana by allowing physicians quick access to complete and accurate patient information through an innovative electronic network.
"The technologies and protocols being developed though health information exchange will have applications statewide and nationally, providing economic opportunities in the growing field of health information," Dr. Overhage said.
William Tierney, M.D., an IUPUI Chancellor's Professor and professor of medicine and dire
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20-Oct-2004