2. About UABHS
Own, Manage or Affiliated with 10 hospitals in Alabama
Over 900 physicians and 11,000 employees
UAB Hospital one of 5 largest AMC’s in the country
Adult Level I Trauma Center
Level IV NICU
Comprehensive Centers for Cancer and Transplant
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3. Support Systems
What We Have:
Support from Executive leadership
Executive/administrative Champions
Physician Champions
Regional Relationships
Service Strategies/Service Lines
Sophisticated IT Support
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4. Goals
What problem(s) are we trying to solve?
Gain referrals & admissions?
Avoid admissions/readmissions?
Expand education and research?
Improve quality? Whose?
Improve Access to UAB Expertise?
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5. Sample Projects
Ambassador Program
View only portal to UAB clinical record
Requires physician to register for use
Imaging availability in 2014
Tele-Stroke
Strategic relationship with 3rd party vendor
8 sites
Concept can be replicated to other services
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6. Sample Projects
Imaging Transfer Network via VPN
Focus is imaging intensive services
8 hospitals live for neurology, neurosurgery, trauma
6 hospitals in test mode
Plan to add CV images to sites
Cancer Network
10 affiliate sites in 4 states
Developing remote 2nd opinion
Developing remote tumor boards
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7. Sample Projects
EQUALITY Program
Eye Quality & Accessibility Improvement in the
Community
Community based glaucoma detection model for at
risk African Americans
Not a screening program. Evidence based newly
developed optic nerve assesment
Hub and spoke with UAB Callahan Eye Hospital and
local Walmart Vision Centers
2 sites operational under grant funding
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8. Sample Projects
Others:
Creation of Smartphone Applications group
Reading of remote EEG
Reading of remote CV studies (echo, ultrasound &
nuclear medicine) from mobile vendors
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