The other grant the RWHC received was for $1.5 million, to be paid out over five years, from the Federal Communication Commission's Rural Health Care Pilot Program.
The same forces pushing those hospitals together in innovative cooperatives like the RWHC are also the same ones driving a large portion of healthcare IT grant availability, he notes.
RWHC computational biologist Doreen Ware will conduct quality-control analysis of the grape genome data.
Data protection and disaster recovery is one key area, and it's been Statz's job to establish and run a central off-site data center in Madison, about 30 miles from
RWHC's headquarters in Sauk City.