West
Virginia Rural Health Network Development Initiative
Special Project 1999
Department of Health and Human Resources
Office of Rural Health
350 Capitol Street, Room 515
Charleston, WV 25301-3713
Sandra Y. Pope, M.S.W.
Ph: 304-558-1327
Fax: 304-558-1437
sandrapope@wvdhhr.org
Project
Partners: Community-based organizations, rural
and underserved communities, rural health networks
Service
Area: State of West Virginia
Major
Services: Develop management information systems
that will allow networks to track encounter data;
establish true costs associated with each network
provider; perform utilization review and quality assurance
functions. The MIS will also provide “back office”
managed care functions such as directing claims information
to the correct billing source, re-pricing claims according
to contracts, and tracking withholds and physician
utilization.
Equipment: Routers, switch and modem DSU to connect data
set to the Network central Processor. Cisco 1601 R
Ethernet/Serial modular router, factory upgrade, WAN
interface card, LAN installations, computers and printers
Key
Features:
- Establish a central repository for claims submissions
by all network providers.
Build a data repository that will house the master
patient index that will be populated by individual
providers and accessed by all eligible providers.
The West Virginia Rural Health Network Development
Initiative was funded in 1999 to develop health care
projects that will enhance and integrate health care
services for rural and underserved communities. In
addition to Management Information System development,
the grant is being used to support the Rural Health
Community Leadership Program, the Recruiter Tutor
(recruitment manual), and the Health Careers Manual.
This project is scheduled to close out in FY 2002.
Mountaineer
Doctor Television
Congressionally Mandated Project 2002
West
Virginia University
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
1 Medical Center Drive - PO Box 9081
Morgantown, WV 26506-9081
http://education.hsc.wvu.edu/wvthenet
Christopher
Budig
Ph: 304-293-6926
Fax: 304-293-8565
cbudig@hsc.wvu.edu
Project
Partners: 13 primary community mental health centers
and 32 satellite community mental health centers
Service
Area: 42 rural communities through out West Virginia
Major
Services: Psychiatry, pharmacological evaluations,
and health provider education
Equipment: Tandberg video conferencing codec(s), Elmo pan/tilt/zoom
camera(s), microphone(s), Sony video monitor(s), and
cart(s)
Transmission: ISDN PRI, ISDN BRI, SDSL, and cable
Key
Features:
- The primary goal of this psychiatric telemedicine
project is to help patients in rural areas obtain
improved access to psychiatric care.
- Project will enhance access to psychiatrists
in shortage areas.
- Provide continuing medical educational opportunities
to health care professionals.
Site is staffed with specialty trained telehealth
nurse clinicians.
The current MDTV telehealth program provides services
to 23 sites in West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland.
The specialties provided include dermatology, rheumatology,
endocrinology, neurology, nephrology, infectious disease,
psychiatry, pulmonary, and gastroenterology. The project
also provides continuing medical education, distance
learning, and administrative teleconferencing over
the Network.
During the past year, MDTV worked with regional prisons
to provide psychiatric services to over 2,100 inmates.
This experience proved that tele-psychiatry works
exceptionally well. West Virginia has a serious shortage
of psychiatric and behavioral medicine service providers.
This shortage is particularly acute for the state’s
14 primary regional mental health centers and 34 satellite
mental health centers.
The goal for this project is to more effectively
provide psychiatric pharmacological evaluations to
rural communities throughout West Virginia. Patients,
health care providers, and communities will benefit
from this project partnership with MDTV.
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