View or download our brochure

RCHI started assisting critical access, small and rural hospitals with the use of data for patient safety and quality improvement in 2004, through a grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The grant was designed to implement advanced information technology that allowed hospitals to analyze quality and safety, as well as, financial and market performance using administrative data. With the end of the grant in 2007 RCHI, together with one of the grant partners, continued to offer the same technology as a service named the Texas Rural Hospital Partnership (TRHP).

Now with a grant from the Texas Department of Rural Affairs, formerly the Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA), the project is offering expanded tools and provides RCHI with the ability to subsidize costs for up to 30 hospitals.

Tools now provide outpatient data reporting to Texas Health Care Information Council (THCIC) and submission enhancement of core measures to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and/or The Joint Commission. The expanded tools are powered by Quadra-Med. This new service is called: Healthcare Data Integration program or HDI.

QuadraMed is known for their services in healthcare information technology, data management, reporting, and performance improvement. Access to their tools and technology will allow us to expand services to our participating hospitals. The Texas Department of Rural Affairs grant will allow us to once again offer a substantial discount to our current hospitals and to bring on ten new hospitals at the same discounted rate.