EMR/EHR/PHR Initiatives

Nebraska Medical Association Project.  The Nebraska Medical Association Foundation received a two-year grant for $499,604 from the Physicians Foundation for Health Systems Excellence to work with small and medium-sized physician practices on electronic health records and chronic disease management registries. 

UNMC Web-based Personal Health Record.  The University of Nebraska Medical Center is establishing a Web-based Personal Health Record (PHR) program for all its students. In contrast with medical records that are owned by doctors or hospitals, a PHR is owned by the patient and is part of a national effort to involve patients in their own health care.

The Rural Comprehensive Care Network of Nebraska . The Rural Comprehensive Care Network of Nebraska received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration’s Rural Health Network Development Program in 2006.   The grant will help physicians, hospitals, and pharmacies in the network communicate via electronic health records.

Nebraska Registry Partnership.  The project is a partnership of the Nebraska Office of Rural Health, Diabetes Prevention and Control Program—HHSS, Cardiovascular Health Program—HHSS, CIMRO of Nebraska, Nebraska Rural Health Association, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.    Through the project, DocSite implementation in pilot clinics has been completed. 

SimplyWell. SimplyWell LLC is an Omaha-based company which is helping employers reduce healthcare costs by identifying risk and disease early and empowering participants to reduce their personal health risks.  SimplyWell assesses and evaluates an organization's healthcare costs through actuarial analysis and determines a company's risk profile by conducting online health risk appraisals and onsite health screenings.  SimplyWell provides a personal health record for participants consisting of six components.

Office of Rural Health: Accelerating Performance Improvement through Enhanced Connectivity. Through a grant from the FLEX Critical Access Hospital Health Information Technology Network Implementation Grant program, the Office of Rural Health and local partners will develop an interoperable clinical information system. Local partners include a 19-bed critical access hospital, five rural health clinics, a home health agency, a nursing home and an assisted living facility, several EMS units, a hospital-owned retail pharmacy and an independent retail pharmacy, and a network tertiary hospital. The target population is located in Thayer County/Hebron, Nebraska, and surrounding communities in Nebraska and Kansas.

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