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This blog is a collaboration between the WI Office of Rural Health and the Rural WI Health Cooperative (RWHC), with much of the content produced by Louis Wenzlow.
Louis is RWHC’s Director of Health Information Technology and the Chief Information Officer of the RWHC Information Technology Network. Before taking his position at RWHC, Louis was the Director of Information Technology at Reedsburg Area Medical Center, where he led a variety of EMR system implementations and chaired the HIPAA Security Taskforce.
He has served on the Wisconsin Doctors Office Quality—Information Technology (DOQ-IT) Advisory Board, the Wisconsin e-Health Initiative Information Exchange Workgroup, and is co-Chair of the Rural Health Resource Center’s Rural Underserved HIT Coalition, as well as a member of the Flex Monitoring Team Expert Workgroup. He frequently presents on issues relating to HIT implementation and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and works closely with the National Rural Health Association, the Rural HIT Coalition, and other organizations to advocate for rural provider HIT needs.
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Louis – I follow you on Twitter. I work with http://www.broadbandforamerica.com, BfA is a large group of organizations with the mission to offer high speed internet access to every business and individual in America. I am specifically helping to educate and share the many benefits of hi-speed internet access to the health and medical industry and for patients.
I asked a question on @theearlyshow yesterday morning about these issues during the ask @drjashton segment. I wanted to connect to see if you’d be interested in having a guest blog post on our site and also posted on your’s specifically about the health benefits of broadband access for rural and underserved areas.
I can be reached at cstineman@broadbandforamerica.com or on Twitter @cstineman.
Thanks!
Chris
As a tobacco coalition coordinator of a rural I must say that I believe that the Smoke-Free Wisconsin Law that will take effect on July 5, 2010 will do great things for rural health. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in this country, this state, and in each of our counties. This law will do much for changing our social norm and therefore our health. It may be the best thing that has ever happened to rural health!
Hi Louis,
I’m partners in a site dedicated to educating health care providers on the impact of the HITECH Act on ehr adoption and implementation. I’d like permission to re-post your latest post — Supplemental “Rural Hospital” REC Funding May Not Reach Most Rural Hospitals — on our HITECH Updates blog. As with any guest post, we duly note authorship, source, etc. Please let me know. I can be reached at: carol@hitechanswers.com
Thanks much!