According to a Mayo news release, the hospital is using a federal grant from the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT’s Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects program. The SHARP program and grants aim to improve care for patient, provide better health information for specific population and drive down healthcare costs.
Mayo is also working with the Indiana Health Information Exchange to establish a data repository, which could streamline health management and outcomes analysis across numerous populations, the report said.
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