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Dori Cross, PhD

University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center

Email: dcross@umn.edu
LinkedIn: Dori on LinkedIn

Health Policy & Management
University of Minnesota
420 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Current Projects - (1)

  • Strengthening Interoperability for Rural Hospitals: The Role of TEFCA
    The digital divide between rural and urban hospitals (a gap in adoption and use of robust IT tools to support care delivery) has narrowed considerably in recent years. And yet, hospitals in rural communities are still struggling with access to and routine use of interoperable health information exchange (HIE) capabilities. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is the federal policy solution to offering all health care organizations an on-ramp to interoperable HIE, particularly entities that lack other vendor-specific alternatives. This project seeks to describe rates of TEFCA participation among critical access hospitals (CAHs) and other rurally-located hospitals, and characterize whether and how reported barriers to interoperability vary based on TEFCA participation.
    Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Health information technology, Healthcare access, Hospitals and clinics, Telehealth, Workforce

Publications - (1)

2021