Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network is partnering with Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network, Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, Pa., and two school districts to create a pediatric health information exchange, according to an Express-Times report.
The hospital and health systems are collaborating with the Bethlehem Area and Allentown school districts in a three-phase, more than $2.3 million project that is designed to make children's medical history available to healthcare providers in the hospital and school nurses.
LVHN currently has more than $1 million from grants and in-kind donations for the first two phases of the project. In the first phase, the organizations will create a secure electronic medical record database for school districts and clinics to use and share information, including students' medical information schools must keep on file. The second phase will connect the school medical records with the LVHN physician portal to aggregate all information.
The third phase, estimated to cost $1.3 million, will add Sacred Heart and St. Luke's medical records to create a pediatric regional HIE.
The project is expected to be completed in two-and-a-half to three years.
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The hospital and health systems are collaborating with the Bethlehem Area and Allentown school districts in a three-phase, more than $2.3 million project that is designed to make children's medical history available to healthcare providers in the hospital and school nurses.
LVHN currently has more than $1 million from grants and in-kind donations for the first two phases of the project. In the first phase, the organizations will create a secure electronic medical record database for school districts and clinics to use and share information, including students' medical information schools must keep on file. The second phase will connect the school medical records with the LVHN physician portal to aggregate all information.
The third phase, estimated to cost $1.3 million, will add Sacred Heart and St. Luke's medical records to create a pediatric regional HIE.
The project is expected to be completed in two-and-a-half to three years.
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