Having immediate access to personal health care information can be a life-or-death matter. The Nebraska Health Information Initiative was created to streamline electronic exchange of such information. NHII will discuss its success during a webinar Feb. 15.
The webinar, part of a monthly series on broadband Internet issues, will be at 10 a.m. CT (9 MT) at https://connect.unl.edu/broadband. It will feature Deb Bass, president and CEO of Bass & Associates, speaking on the topic "Health Information Exchange and Health Care Transformation, What Does it Mean to Nebraskans?"
Much has been said about the effort to achieve health care reform and make it easier for physicians to obtain complete medical records on the patients they are treating by using electronic exchange of health information. The Nebraska Health Information Initiative was created to accomplish that. The webinar will cover the history of the project, as well as current offerings and why Nebraska is considered one of the nation's leaders in health care transformation.
The webinar also will offer the first presentation of a statewide consumer awareness campaign designed to educate patients to ask their doctors if they currently use electronic records.
More information on the broadband project is available on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/broadbandnebraska and on Twitter, @broadbandnebr.
Other webinars are set for March 21 and April 18.
The initiative is funded by a grant to the Nebraska Public Service Commission by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
The Broadband Mapping and Planning Initiative has been conducted by a coalition of Nebraska partners, including the PSC, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, the UNL Center for Applied Rural Innovation, the Nebraska Information Technology Commission's Communication Council, the AIM Institute and the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/vjx