Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Office of Rural Health and Primary Care Logo The 2005 Minnesota Rural Health Conference
" Smart Health for Rural Communities"
was held in Duluth, Minnesota July 18-19, 2005.

Over 200 people who care about rural health examined how Minnesota’s rural communities are using innovation to maintain and improve the quality of—and access to—health care.

Minnesota Rural Health Hero and Team Award winners

Photos

Conference Sponsors and Exhibitors

Conference Program

Presentations:

Conference Keynote Addresses

A. Clint MacKinney, M.D.: Quality Through Collaboration (Power Point: 5MB) and (PDF: 3MB)
Katharine Ann Campbell, C.H.E.: When There’s no Room on the Bench (Power Point: 1MB) and (PDF: 473KB)

Concurrent Session Presentations

Academic Health Center Online Learning Opportunities (Power Point: 2MB) and (PDF: 1.35 MB)
Balanced Scorecard: A Smart Approach to Performance Improvement (Power Point: 2MB) (PDF: 588KB)
Building Health Liaisons Between Multiple Communities (Power Point: 5MB) and (PDF: 7MB)
Career Ladder for the Education and Advancement of Nursing (CLEAN) (Power Point: 68KB) and (PDF:54 KB)
Collaborative Emergency Medical System: A Case Presentation (Power Point: 183KB) and (PDF: 135KB)
Community Health Information Collaborative and Northeast Minnesota Regional Health Information Organization (Power Point: 135KB) and (PDF:86KB)
Community Health Worker (Power Point: 214KB) and (PDF:216KB)
Critical Access Hospital: Billing and Reimbursement Strategies (Power Point: 141KB) and (PDF:96KB)
Detroit Lakes Healthcare Consortium (Power Point: 320KB) and (PDF: 226KB)
Economically Feasible Innovations in Rural Pharmacies (Power Point 442 KB) and (PDF: 446KB)
Electronic Health Record Implementation: Factors for Success (Power Point: 1MB) and (PDF: 423 KB)
Electronic Health Records Implementation: Gateway Clinic (PDF: 559 KB)
Expanding Medicare Advantage to Rural Minnesota (Power Point: 341KB) and (PDF: 159 KB)
Financing Capital Assets (Power Point: 52KB) and (PDF: 33KB)
Financing Graduate Medical Education in Minnesota: Medical Education and Research Costs (Power Point: 135KB) and (PDF: 153KB)
Funding Rural Health Care Needs (Power Point: 2MB) and (PDF: 858KB)
Greater Northwest Emergency Management Systems: Grants (Power Point: 170KB) and (PDF:201KB)
Healthcare Education Industry Partnership (Power Point: 1MB) and (PDF: 20MB)
Health Literacy: A Crisis in Health Care (Power Point: 7MB) and (PDF: 217KB)
Implementation of Emergency Medical Records (PDF: 68 KB)
Institute for Health Care Improvement’s 100k Lives Campaign (Power Point: 1MB) and (PDF: 557KB)
Minnesota e-Health Initiative (Power Point: 662KB) and (PDF: 453KB)
Minnesota Area Health Education Center (PDF: 1 MB)
Minnesota Online Learning (PDF: 762 KB)
Minnesota State University/Moorhead Nursing Program (PDF: 419 KB)
Perspectives on Minnesota’s Health Industry Workforce (Power Point: 947KB) and (PDF: 4.57MB)
Rural Mental Health and Primary Care (Power Point: 311KB) and (PDF: 180KB)
Sisu (Power Point: 144KB) and (PDF: 355KB)
University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, Duluth (Power Point: 240KB) and (PDF: 360KB)