The Louisiana Recovery Authority´s (LRA) Health Care Committee received a midterm progress report from the Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative as part of the post-Katrina effort to develop, and oversee the implementation of, a practical blueprint for an evidence-based, quality-driven health care system for Louisiana. The blueprint will serve as a guide to health care policy in Louisiana and for the recovery and rebuilding of health care in the hurricane-affected areas of the state. The Committee also received an update on the implementation of health information technology as the foundation for the re-engineered delivery system. Plans include a conversion to electronic health records, computerized physician order entry, e-prescribing, telemedicine, tele-monitoring and patient information portals.
"Providing our doctors with access to electronic health records puts us one step closer to a safer, stronger, smarter Louisiana," said LRA Board Member and Healthcare Committee Chair Kim Boyle. "With innovations like those we discussed today, the rest of the country will soon look to us as the standard for modern healthcare." Detailed recommendations on both concepts will be presented to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt next week (September 15).
For details:
- see this report
