After much hard work and planning the Health Information Technology Implementation for Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) grant was completed and submitted February 5, 2010. CHAD would like to thank everyone who worked so diligently to accomplish the writing of this grant. The submitted applications will be reviewed at the end of March.
Congratulations to Key Health Alliance, a Minnesota based partnership of Stratis Health, the Rural Health Resource Center, and The College of St. Scholastica! Key Health Alliance has been awarded a $19 million grant to serve as the new federally designated Regional Extension Assistance Centers for Health Information Technology (REACH) for Minnesota and North Dakota. The grant for South Dakota’s Regional Extension Center was submitted January 29, 2010 and these second-round award announcements are anticipated in late March.
CHAD will keep you up-to-date as the award announcements are made.
CHAD has been approached by Drs. Omar El-Gayer and Surendra Sarnikar of Dakota State University (DSU) to participate in a comparative effectiveness research project. This project would be a good fit for a collaborative effort between CHAD, DSU, and DSU’s Center for Health Information Technology (CAHIT). CHAD would like to invite members to participate in the pilot program.
Earlier this year, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) announced the availability of funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for strategies for accelerating the adoption of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) comparative effectiveness research (CER) results by providers and patients (RFA-AE-10-001). DSU’s proposed project would disseminate existing CER products related to diabetes mellitus type 2 to clinicians and patients to improve use and penetration of the CER products in medically underserved areas. This would be accomplished by developing and implementing patient decision support systems (PDSS) and clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and incorporating these tools into clinical decision support settings.
CHAD members would benefit by providing a value-added service to patients, reducing health disparities, and improving overall patient care. DSU faculty will develop the ASPE product based on patient decision support systems and clinician decision support systems with collaboration from participating members’ providers along with University of South Dakota (USD) and Avera Endocrinologists and Diabetes experts. CHAD, CAHIT, and DSU faculty will provide the workflow and information technology implementation, project planning expertise, and training.
For additional information, please contact Deana Fuller, director of business ventures development, at (605) 357-1451.
The Information Technology Network Team will be meeting every other month by webinar on the third Tuesday, beginning March 23.
Meeting Details
Deana would like to invite those interested to join an EHR/PMS Network Team. The purpose of this team is to discuss best practices, address problems and issues in pre-implementation, implementation, and post-implementation, and create an opportunity for staff working directly with the EHR/PMS solution to get better acquainted. The Network Team should include clinical, IT, and other front line staff.
The first meeting will be April 6 via webinar. Webinar information will be emailed toward the end of March. This team will then meet the first Tuesday of every other month.
For questions or technical assistance requests on business ventures development, please contact Deana Fuller, director of business ventures development, at (605) 357-1451.
The Business Ventures Development Committee is comprised of four members of CHAD’s Board of Directors and CHAD’s Chief Executive Officer.
| Chairperson: | |
| Dawn Berg | Coal Country Community Health Center |
| Committee Members: | |
| Rita Wagner | Rural Health Care, Inc. |
| John Mengenhausen | Horizon Health Care, Inc. |
| Faye Hagen | Northland Community Health Centers |
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| Scot Graff | Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas |
A venue for community health center staff to establish relationships with other professionals while gaining valuable resources and insight to relevent best practices.
Meeting Dates: |
Third Tuesday of every other month |
| March 23, 2010 |
EMR implementation from the IT Perspective |
| May 18, 2010 | |
| July 21, 2010 | |
| September 21, 2010 |
| CHAD Network Team Facilitator: | Deana Fuller |
Coal Country Community Health Care |
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| Beulah, ND | Shannon Benjamin |
Family HealthCare Center |
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| Fargo, ND | Carrie Baumgartner |
Migrant Health Services, Inc. |
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| Moorhead, MN | Kristi Jacobson |
Northland Community Health Center |
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| Turtle Lake, ND | Jordan Froehlich |
Valley Community Health Centers |
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| Northwood, ND | Wendy Nygaard |
Falls Community Health |
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| Sioux Falls, SD | Alicia Collura |
| Amy Richardson | |
Horizon Health Care, Inc. |
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| Howard, SD | Justin Palmquist |
| Scott Weatherill | |
Prairie Community Health |
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| Isabel, SD | Bev Stradinger |
Rural Health Care, Inc. |
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| Fort Pierre, SD | Todd Galbraith |
Union County Health Foundation |
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| Alcester, SD | Brad Bertrand |
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