Mississippi As One – Together for Health
In 2007, 27 states received Medicaid Transformation Grants under Section 6081 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. The grants were rewarded to states that proposed innovative methods which in the end of the two years are designed to produce better health outcomes at lower cost.
The Center for Health Transformation is highlighting states that have received these Medicaid Transformation Grants, and will be following their progress for the next two years. In order for key decisionmakers and industry leaders from around the country to learn from others’ successes, it is our intention to provide this resource in order to showcase innovative practices from across the nation. In the future, this site will be interactive, allowing program directors to submit updates and comments regarding their program.
ABSTRACT: The State of Mississippi, Division of Medicaid (DoM), proposes to create an electronic health information highway that is a web-based system enabling hospitals, nursing homes, medical needs shelters, public health centers and others to share real-time, event status- including the existence of, and/or need for staff, supplies and other resources. Moreover, this information highway can accentuate patient flow and accelerate patient transfers while simultaneously providing a patient record knowledge exchange. The system proposed by DoM is a system that will address the cross border issues. More exciting still… the proposed system is a system that can be integrated and used by Medicaid every day – not just during times of disaster – enabling Mississippi to move rapidly toward electronic recording and communication. The system is extremely functional and multi-faceted. Though the roll out of the system is designed to provide an immediate solution to the state’s disaster response needs, this proposal includes exploiting all the benefits the system has to offer.
The total projected budget for the FYs 2007 and 2008 is $1,688,000.
