Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital Internet Project

描述（由申请人提供）： Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital是一家公立的非营利性医院，拥有83张床位。 位于爱荷华州东北部农村的一个医疗机构。温尼希克县纪念馆 医院的农村互联网连接补助金建议安装网关 连接温尼希克县纪念医院的设备s（W.C.M.H.）现有 以太局域网向互联网提供高速 互联网接入和电子邮件通信。 这项赠款提出的活动有三个明确的目标：1）提供农村 医生、执业护士、医师助理、药剂师、护士， 专职卫生专业人员和管理人员在W.C.M.H.高速 （2）建立一个以互联网为基础的信息和图书馆服务; 确保医院内的电子邮件服务，并改善和扩大 与外部资源进行电子邮件通信的可用性，例如 三级护理中心，国家机构和其他医疗来源 3）通过培训和培训增强卫生专业人员的能力， 将最新信息纳入教育 技术融入临床信息寻求行为，并整合 基于互联网的信息和通信资源，如NLM数据库 和电子邮件，进入日常医疗实践，以支持病人护理， 为了实现这些目标，赠款资金将不仅用于 购买和安装网关硬件和软件，但提供培训 在项目开始时为互联网用户提供技术支持 并在持续的基础上。创建一个高效的企业级 信息系统一直是W.C.M.H.？最具长期战略意义的 目标. WCMH因此，承诺承担所有持续的费用， 在项目第一年之后管理拟议的互联网连接。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital is a public, nonprofit 83-bed acute care medical facility located in rural northeast Iowa. Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital's Rural Internet Connection Grant proposes to install gateway equipment to connect Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital?s (W.C.M.H.) existing ethernet local area network to the Internet in order to provide high-speed Internet access, and e-mail communications. Activities proposed in this grant have three clear goals: 1) Provide rural physicians, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, pharmacists, nurses, allied health professionals, and managerial staff at W.C.M.H with high-speed access to Internet-based information and library services; 2) Establish a secure electronic mail services within the hospital, and improve and expand the availability of email communications with outside resources, such as tertiary care centers, state agencies, and other sources of medical information; and 3) Empower health professionals through training and education to incorporate state-of- the-art information technology into clinical information seeking behaviors, and to integrate Internet-based information and communication resources, such as NLM databases and email, into everyday medical practice in support of patient care In order to accomplish these goals, grant funds will be used not only to purchase and install gateway hardware and software, but to provide training classes and technical support to Internet users at the outset of the project and on an ongoing basis. The creation of an efficient enterprise-wide information system has been one of W.C.M.H.?s most longstanding strategic goals. W.C.M.H. is, therefore, committed to assuming all ongoing costs of managing the proposed Internet connection beyond the first project year.