HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRAS

承包商应计划并进行以下影响的评估： 国家信息基础设施的医疗保健，研究，或 公共卫生在适用范围内，承包商应评估 保护个人健康数据隐私的方法， 提供有效的合法医疗保健、研究和 公共卫生目的。承包商还应评估以下设施的效用： 新的卫生数据标准在先进的 通信和计算技术。 华盛顿大学采取的这一具体做法的标题是 “从工作台到床边和超越：建立和测试一个集成 太平洋西北区域医疗信息网。“会的 创建华盛顿大学学术医学中心（UWAMC） 区域卫生信息基础设施，并评估其对 获得保健服务的机会、质量和费用，以及 制度的围墙。该项目将整合和应用当前和 新兴技术，以提供更大的访问，易用性和成本- 有效提供优质保健服务。该项目将使 UWAMC致力于提供健康相关信息的愿景 资源和决策支持工具和数据的时间和地点 卫生保健服务提供者的需求。 该项目的远程诊断和远程会议部分将 允许远程提供者“看到”患者和彼此， 在整个地区的临床站点的临床医生，以更好地沟通， 合作，并获得访问UW健康科学图书馆， 信息中心资源和服务。我们的区域健康 信息网络还将向适当提供者提供 从多个来源保护患者相关数据;促进共享 试验提供保密的电子数据; 提供者之间以及提供者与其患者之间的邮件链接。

The contractor shall plan and carry out an evaluation of the impact of the National Information Infrastructure on health care, research, or public health. To the extent applicable, the contractor shall evaluate methods to preserve the privacy of individual health data while also providing efficient access for legitimate health care, research and public health purposes. The contractor shall also assess the utility of emerging health data standards in health applications of advanced communications and computing technologies. This specific approach taken by the University of Washington is entitled "From Bench to Bedside and Beyond: Building and Testing an Integrated Regional Medical Information Network for the Pacific Northwest." It will create a University of Washington Academic Medical Center (UWAMC) regional health information infrastructure and evaluate its impact on access, quality and cost of health care and public health beyond its institutional walls. This project will integrate and apply current and emerging technologies to provide greater access, ease of use, and cost- effective delivery of quality health care. The project will move the UWAMC toward the vision of providing health-related information resources and decision support tools and data at the time and place of need by health cam providers across the region. The telediagnosis and teleconferencing elements of the project will allow distant providers to "see" patients and each other, enable clinicians at clinical sites across the region to better communicate, collaborate, and gain access to UW Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center resources and services. Our regional health information network will also offer appropriate provider access to secure patient-related data from multiple sources; facilitate sharing of appropriate data; and experiment with providing confidential electronic mail links between providers, and between providers and their patients.