She co-chaired last month's conference on IT in the Workplace and also recently completed a study of the perceptions of Nebraska high school students' perceptions of IT careers. She is a faculty member of Creighton's new masters program in e-commerce. In Kearney, Donna Hammack is a tireless advocate for the use of telecommunications to expand healthcare services to medically underserved areas of the state. Through her efforts, Good Samaritan Hospital is expanding access to medical services in rural communities through their telehealth conferencing system. The project is serving over 100 patients per month in eight Nebraska and two Kansas towns.
Services range from consultations with a cardiologist to remote x-ray analysis.
Donna also co-chairs the NITC's Community Council. In Norfolk, Diane Becker a farm wife, Web designer, and Internet instructor started an ag Internet club to help area agricultural producers learn how to use the Internet. Now she is looking at ways to use the Internet to direct market agricultural products. And there's Annie Kime, a lifelong resident of the sandhills. Annie makes and sells jams and jellies from her home, located 35 miles outside of Valentine.