Electronic Healthcare Access for Poor Rural Communities

 

The Southern Piedmont Partnership together with the Cabarrus Health Alliance received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Federal Communications Commission to establish a health information exchange among healthcare providers in the region. This cutting-edge technology places a patient’s health information in the patient’s hands. With this user-friendly, web-based tool, a patient can review diagnoses and lab results and can send real-time information to their physicians about their up-to-the-minute condition using their cell phone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) from their home or elsewhere. This multifaceted project includes the

1. redesign of selected clinical workflows,
2. development of the personal health record application,
3. creation of a statewide broadband network serving even the most remote counties in the region, and
4. development of application solutions for handheld technologies.

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