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This effort will provide comprehensive medical information to all participating individuals in Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette counties (including the City of Memphis). The estimated population will be one million. It’s goal is to provide immediate benefit to the region while at the same time advancing the Nation’s understanding of the technical, organizational, and political impediments to developing the NHII. The approach is initially a provider-based model focusing on short-term impact of technologies on emergency departments and other settings. Public health and child health opportunities have also been identified. Outreach to physicians will be pursued through core members and professional societies but will not be activated until after the core infrastructure includes all appropriate security and privacy measures.
The technology is provided by Vanderbilt University. It allows participants to “publish” information in any of a wide number of formats to a “vault” owned by the publishing entity. Information across vaults will be integrated using business rules of each participant and the overall organization. This approach allows for low participation costs and supports a gradual evolution to standards and true interoperability.
The initiative is on-track with the proposed agenda set forth in the AHRQ regional demonstration proposal (available at http://www.volunteer-eHealth.org).
Partnering Organizations:
State of Tennessee Volunteer eHealth Initiative Vanderbilt University Baptist Health System Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Methodist Health System The Regional Medical Center (The MED) Saint Francis Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Shelby County/Health Loop Clinics University of Tennessee Medical Group Christ Community Health Services Memphis Children’s Clinic Shelby, Tipton and Fayette County Governments Tennessee Department of Health
Memphis Managed Care-TLC Health Choice, LLC Other plans and data sources are also contributing to the effort
This website was made possible by grant number 1D1BTM00095-01 from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of HRSA/OAT.
