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Health & Wellness Services: Addressing Clinic IT Needs

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:47 +0000

Southern Indiana Community Health Care will work with the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering’s Serve IT team to develop the IT needs assessment, automate and streamline clinical processes, and train clinic staff on new information technology tools. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustaining Hoosier Communities Contact Info Jane [...]

Community Arts: Developing a Communications Network

Victor Manzanilla — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:27:45 +0000

Orange County is a rural southern Indiana county comprising four incorporated towns and a number of unincorporated communities. Residents are intent on celebrating the county’s industrial roots, natural beauty, and historic architecture while embracing and preparing for the future. Local progress is driven in large part by “grassroots cooperative leadership” (), while legal and medical non-profits provide essential communal services. This community-oriented mentality lends itself to innovative partnerships between various actors working towards common goals in areas like infrastructure, culture, tourism, and healthcare.

An essential community health center needed an information technology tune-up

Southern Indiana Community Health Care (SICHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center located in Paoli, Orange County’s seat. A fixture in the Paoli community, SICHC provides residents with vital health services. The clinic relies on its digital databases in order to internally maintain and track patient health information and streamline quality care. When it came time to assess and improve SICHC’s information technology, the clinic reached out to students at Indiana University.

Students apply their IT knowledge for the benefit of the clinic

Seeking functional solutions, Doris Weaver of Southern Indiana Community Health Care partnered with the Sustaining Hoosier Communities (SHC) program at Indiana University. This partnership involved students in Matt Hottel’s Serve IT clinic in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Participating students were challenged to assess SICHC’s specific information technology needs, automate and streamline processes, and train clinic staff on new IT tools.

Improved technology and training helps health care run more smoothly

Indiana University IT students delivered valuable results for Southern Indiana Community Health Care. Participants evaluated the clinic’s existing IT system and identified and implemented improvements. They also conducted staff training which brought the clinic up to date with current best practices and enabled staff to focus on quality patient care.

Modern healthcare workers rely on up-to-date, organized data systems in the workplace. Participating students helped to make this essential community clinic’s information technology––and by extension, its overall operation––more effective and efficient to the benefit of both staff and patients.

Sustaining Hoosier Communities Contact Info
Jane Rogan
Sustaining Hoosier Communities Director
jrogan@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0568
https://shc.indiana.edu

Read the full story of the partnership.

Indiana University students develop an artists communication network

Ada Inman — Tue, 18 May 2021 15:46:34 +0000

Artists envision a digital space for local creators

The Black Vulture Project is an arts group which works to improve Orange County residents’ access to the arts, “connect with the art community and host creators of all kinds” (). Housed in a former factory which now hosts workshops, gallery openings, live music, and film screenings, it is committed to strengthening local arts culture. Working with similar groups through the Community Arts Communications Network project, the Black Vulture Project sought novel ways to form professional connections and improve communications within the artistic community.

Using information technology to foster community

Moving forward, members of the Community Arts Communications Network project reached out to the Sustaining Hoosier Communities (SHC) program at Indiana University. Community partner Andrew Gerber of Black Vulture facilitated the collaboration, enlisting the help of Professor Matt Hottell’s serve IT students in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Hottell challenged his students to take a tech-based approach to artist networking. Participants used information technology (IT) to develop a comprehensive web-based information hub for the local arts community.

A well designed artistic network, built to last

Student participants used their information technology expertise to build a functional online hub for the Orange County arts community. Artists, gallerists, and other creatives can use the network to coordinate with each other, organize, and promote upcoming events. This successful project strengthened local cultural networks and, by extension, the arts economy. It also introduced students to the wide-ranging applications of IT in a unique real-world setting.

Like any community, the arts community thrives when it can easily share ideas and information. This crucial project used technology to connect organizations which may otherwise have been isolated from each other. The creative possibilities are infinite.

Sustaining Hoosier Communities Contact Info
Jane Rogan
Sustaining Hoosier Communities Director
jrogan@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0568
https://shc.indiana.edu

Read the full story of the partnership.

Pennsylvania State University

Ada Inman — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:19:26 +0000

Sustainable Communities Collaborative

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The Sustainable Communities Collaborative (SCC) connects university faculty, students, and staff with local communities to address sustainability challenges through an engaged, collaborative effort to meet the partnering community’s sustainability priorities. The SCC networks with its 23 Commonwealth Campuses, leveraging local knowledge, unique programs, and Penn State resources to advance sustainability across the state of Pennsylvania.

An early adopter of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a framework, the SCC works across all colleges and disciplines. The majority of SCC classes involve junior and senior undergraduate students, as well as occasional freshman or graduate classes.

Since its inception, SCC has involved almost 4,000 students in 350 projects. Projects focus on building capacity within communities to address issues ranging from equity and inclusion, to the effects of climate change and economic challenges within the more than 2,000 local governments in the state.

Year Program Established | 2013-14
Country | US
Federal Region of Program | 3

Public or Private Institution | Public
Number of students at institution | 98,000

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City Partners

State College, home of the Penn State main campus, continues to be SCC’s primary supporter, but has been joined by an increasing number of small and larger local and county governments, and more urban areas near Reading, Pittsburgh, and Erie, Pennsylvania.

Contact Info

Ilona Ballreich
Program Manager
(814) 865-2291
ixb20@psu.edu

Paul Shrivastava, Ph.D.
Chief Sustainability Officer, The Pennsylvania State University
Director, Sustainability Institute
paul.shri@psu.edu

Sustainability Institute
106 Land and Water Research Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-7488