Thea Agnew-Bemben
11:16 - 12:10
“the thing we're doing very directly right now is we're applying for funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program, and the, what we are applying to do is to implement client records at all three of our departments—fire, police, and health—which we are in kind of different stages of right now, and then to be able to connect those to the health information exchange, which will allow us to actually have a way to communicate and share information with hospitals.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Bemben
- Timestamp
- 11:16 – 12:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
From the transcript
We are also having kind of more system-level conversations with the hospitals because this affects all of them, regional, A&M-C, and Providence. Kathleen and Emily are part of those, but it also has, it affects the state. You know, it has to do with kind of the capacity of a lot of our systems. The thing we're doing very directly right now is we're applying for funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program, and the, what we are applying to do is to implement client records at all three of our departments—fire, police, and health—which we are in kind of different stages of right now, and then to be able to connect those to the health information exchange, which will allow us to actually have a way to communicate and share information with hospitals. Because if you can imagine, this is—when Emily says work herself out of a job, we—it's a game of telephone right now.
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