BATON ROUGE — A system that electronically links rural hospitals, allows doctors at the LSU Health Science Center in Shreveport to treat patients in remote locations and puts patients' electronic records at doctors' fingertips has gained national recognition.
Advance, a national magazine for health information professionals, in its August issue selected the collaborative effort of the Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, the Louisiana Rural Hospital Association and the LSUHSC-S as the nation's top health information technology project for the year. The system brings high-quality health care to patients in rural central and north Louisiana.
The idea was born of necessity in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina, says Dr. Donald Hines of Bunkie, executive director of LARHIX.
