Military Interoperable Digital Hospital Testbed (MIDHT)

Abstract

The MIDHT project in Year 1 focused on three (3) distinct but related arms of research and development involving health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange (HIE) capabilities within a rural healthcare system in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The goal was to empower both providers and patients with technologies aimed to improve the quality and coordination of care, reduce medical errors, promote patient safety and reduce overall healthcare costs. Many lessons were learned in deploying a HIE testbed infrastructure for data exchange between Conemaugh Health System (CHS) facilities and externally with the Department of Defense (DoD). Video teleconferencing (VTC) proved effective in delivering exercise and nutrition information to a metabolic syndrome population whereas online journal usage steadily declined over the course of one year. A manuscript detailing Personal Health Records (PHR) was successfully accepted for publication.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA586813

Entities

People

  • John Karduck

Organizations

  • Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Delivery Of Health Care
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Organizational Structure
  • Patient Care
  • Personnel Management
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.