The University at Buffalo health professions schools and Health Sciences Library, in collaboration with all the affiliated healthcare organizations in the eight counties of Western New York, will engage in a strategic planning project to bring together into an integrated online electronic environment the educational, research, patient care, and administrative information resources and services needed to comprehensively support faculty, students, staff, and administrators in this dispersed, multi-institutional health sciences center. This planning process will also provide opportunities to extend greater access to appropriate health information resources for patients, their families and the general public of Western New York. The two years of NLM IAIMS grant funding, starting in December 1998, will support the costs of two additional, dedicated planning support staff, consultants from other IAIMS institutions, modest equipment and supplies, travel for Project staff, the production of an IAIMS newsletter, a final Project Symposium, and half the cost of an IAIMS future scenarios video production. The Project specific aims include: 1) articulating a clear vision for integrated health information that supports seamless access to information; 2) designing an IAIMS planning and governance structure which will ensure the effective development and implementation of an integrated, advance health information management system for Western New York; 3) developing a master plan which provides a clear roadmap for the development of integrated, advanced health information resources and services and targets the University at Buffalo?s Comprehensive Health Sciences Education Center as a testbed and catalyst for prototyping these system integration efforts; 4) developing the framework for establishing a Health Informatics Center that will bring together the physical facilities, faculty and staff resources needed to foster advanced systems development, informatics research, and graduate informatics training programs; and 5) educating the entire health sciences community and the public so they can make effective use of the information resources and services available in this dispersed, but integrated multi-institutional network environment.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Type
Resources Project Grant (NLM) (G08)
Project #
1G08LM006763-01
Application #
2803412
Study Section
Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee (BLR)
Program Officer
Florance, Valerie
Project Start
1999-03-01
Project End
2001-02-28
Budget Start
1999-03-01
Budget End
2000-02-29
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department
Miscellaneous
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
038633251
City
Buffalo
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
14260