National Technology Transfer Center to Play Key Role in New State Program Focused on Improving Rural Health Care for West Virginians

National Technology Transfer Center to Play Key Role in New State Program Focused on Improving Rural Health Care for West Virginians: "The vision shown by Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., in applying government technology success stories to the private sector will come alive once again when a nationally accredited military health program will be adapted to the needs of West Virginia's medically underserved, rural patients to overcome the barriers of geographic isolation and to improve the quality of their health care.
The initiative, called HEALTHeWV, will utilize the information technology of Walter Reed Army Medical Center's award-winning HEALTHeFORCES program to implement a disease-outcomes-management and preventive-health-services program that enhances health care quality, reduces costs and improves a patient's overall health outcomes."