2004 - 2005 Grantee Directory - Minnesota

Fairview Ridges Hospital
Brian Milavitz
201 Nicollet Boulevard
Burnsville, MN 55337
Ph: 612-672-2253 Fax: 612-672-7050
http://www.fairview.org
Email: bmilavi1@fairview.org

Network Partners: Fairview-University Medical Center (F-UMC) (hub), Fairview Southdale Hospital (spoke), Fairview Lakes Medical Center (spoke).

Project Purpose: To reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Minnesota using technology and communication methodologies in a way that leverages skilled professionals and builds on community based systems. To show that using technology and telemedicine techniques, hospitals will be better able to provide accessible specialty care to mothers and their babies in the communities where they live.

Outcomes Expected: Local availability of services will increase access and quality of care and provider and patient satisfaction. Measures:

• Number of and reason for maternal and neonatal referrals.
• Number of and reason for neonatal referrals (inpatient and outpatient).
• Volume of obstetric patients receiving prenatal care and delivering at Ridges.
• Morbidity and mortality statistics for obstetric and neonatal population.
• Patient and physician satisfaction.

Service Area: Portions of Dakota and Scott counties in Southeastern Minnesota. Total population of the area in 2000 was 286,000 with a 1.5% annual growth rate.

Services Provided: High level ultrasounds with ability for neonatalogists to provide near real time remote interpretation via high speed store and forward link to F-UMC. Remote specialty consultations with physicians at F-UMC. Physiological monitoring and support equipment to facilitate level II care on-site at Ridges.

Equipment: Electronic maternal and fetal monitoring equipment, high level ultrasound, remote linkage software, life support equipment, EMR upgrades, videoconferencing equipment.

Transmission: Very high bandwidth optical ring, ISDN. MINNESOTA Informatics/Health Information Services Grant: Auto. Med. Dispensing Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center.

Network Partners: Fairview Pharmacy Services WORx Support, 711 Kasota Ave., St. Paul, MN, Cardinal Health, Pyxis Corporation, 3750 Torrey View Court, San Diego, CA.

Project Purpose: Develop an automated medication dispensing system in our rural hospital to improve service delivery and patient safety in medication dispensing and administration, decrease costs related to staff rework and medication waste, and enhance the volume of electronic data exchanges involved in service delivery.

Outcomes Expected: Decrease turnaround time between medication order and administration (time study), Reduce medication errors (medication error reporting), Reduce number of medication/pharmacy credits (data analysis), Improve employee satisfaction (staff surveys), Increase the data elements able to exchange via electronic methods (flow analysis), Establish interfaces with other information management programs (system analysis). Service Area: Used throughout the hospital which services all or portions of 5 counties north of the Twin Cities metro area.

Services Provided: Inpatient and outpatient hospital pharmacy services have been provided to patients at this location since February of 1998. The automation of this process utilizing this grant began in April of 2003 and the project was completed in August of 2003.

Equipment: Nine (9) medstation main units, one (1) medstation console unit, five (5) auxiliary units, one (1) tower unit, one (1) Pyxis CII safe controlled substance management system unit, one (1) auxiliary vault unit, and one (1) Pyxis PARx Auto-Replenishment system.

Transmission: Mediware's WORx computerized pharmacy management system - Pyxis interface. MINNESOTA Fairview-University of Minnesota Telemedicine Network University of Minnesota

Project Purpose: Meet the needs of rural Minnesotans for a greater range of specialty medicine consultations with an emphasis on mental health, geriatric issues and perinatal care; improve treatment of chronic conditions including heart disease, diabetes, organ transplants and chronic pain; and health professional education. Facilitate the continued growth of FUMTN into an open network of multiple telemedicine providers and users to reach a larger percent of the state's rural underserved populations in multiple settings. Patients will be served by telemedicine not just in hospitals, but in rural clinics, homes, and long term care facilities.

Outcomes Expected: Increase number of network members where patients can seek telemedicine consultations and assist those sites to extend telemedicine into the community through home care agencies, long- term care facilities and rural health clinics. It is anticipated that the outcomes will be larger numbers of available services, providers and network sites; greater number of consults; larger number of educational programs; more home care visits and discharges to lower levels of care.

Service Area: Portions of 12 Minnesota counties. Covers 11 HPSAs and pHPSAs; 13 full and partial mental health HPSAs; 10 MUAs and pMUAs; one partial MUP. Counties served: Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Goodhue, Itasca, Mille Lacs, Otter Tail, Pine, St. Louis, Todd and Wadena.

Services Provided: Current specialties: Dermatology, Orthopedic surgery, cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, gastroenterology, asthma/allergy and child psychiatry. New services: Geriatrics, Adult Mental Health, Chronic Illness and Fetal and Maternal Health.

Equipment: Currently using: 4 Polycom FX's and 6 Polycom Viewstation videoconferencing units, 6 handheld exam cameras, 6 digital cameras, 4 digital stethoscopes, 1 otoscope, and 5 document cameras. Planned installations: 5 Polycom Viewstation videoconferencing units, 4 digital cameras, 7 video phones for home care.

Transmission: 4 network members utilize ISDN connections. 5 network members are using IP connection. Telehome care will be either h.324 over POTS lines or h.323 for IP communications.