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U.S. Government offers $1.2 billion in Grants for EHR (Electronic Health Records) & HIE (Health Information Exchanges)
Colleagues,
Last week the White House announced the availability of grants worth nearly $1.2 billion to help hospitals and health care providers implement and use electronic health records. The grants will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), i.e., "Stimulus" funding, and will help health care providers qualify for new incentives that will be made available in 2010 to doctors and hospitals that meaningfully use electronic health records...
... The grants made available include:
* Grants totaling $598 million to establish approximately 70 Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers, which will provide hospitals and clinicians with hands-on technical assistance in the selection, acquisition, implementation, and meaningful use of certified electronic health record systems.
* Grants totaling $564 million to States and Qualified State Designated Entities (SDEs) to support the development of mechanisms for information sharing within an emerging nationwide system of networks.
Grants under the Extension Program will be awarded on a rolling basis with an expected 20 grants awarded in the first quarter of FY2010, another 25 in the third quarter and the remaining awards in the fourth quarter of FY2010.
Grants to States will be made in fiscal year 2010. Cooperative agreements will be awarded through the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program to states and qualified State Designated Entities (SDEs) to develop and advance mechanisms for
information sharing across the health care system.
The grants are designed to help doctors and hospitals acquire electronic health records and use them in meaningful ways to improve the health of patients and reduce waste and inefficiency...They will also help states lead the way in creating the infrastructure for health information exchange, which enables information to follow patients within and across communities, wherever the information is needed to help doctors and patients make the best decisions about medical care...
...The Department of Health and Human Services will also provide additional assistance to health care providers through the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC). The HITRC will gather relevant information on effective practices from a wide variety of sources across the country and help the Regional Extension Centers collaborate with one another and with relevant stakeholders to identify and share best practices in EHR adoption, effective use, and provider support...
Read on at: http://HealthIT.HHS.gov for more information.
Attached are two detailed fact sheets explaining these funding opportunities:
1)Health Information Technology Extension Program, and
2) State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program.
Last week the White House announced the availability of grants worth nearly $1.2 billion to help hospitals and health care providers implement and use electronic health records. The grants will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), i.e., "Stimulus" funding, and will help health care providers qualify for new incentives that will be made available in 2010 to doctors and hospitals that meaningfully use electronic health records...
... The grants made available include:
* Grants totaling $598 million to establish approximately 70 Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers, which will provide hospitals and clinicians with hands-on technical assistance in the selection, acquisition, implementation, and meaningful use of certified electronic health record systems.
* Grants totaling $564 million to States and Qualified State Designated Entities (SDEs) to support the development of mechanisms for information sharing within an emerging nationwide system of networks.
Grants under the Extension Program will be awarded on a rolling basis with an expected 20 grants awarded in the first quarter of FY2010, another 25 in the third quarter and the remaining awards in the fourth quarter of FY2010.
Grants to States will be made in fiscal year 2010. Cooperative agreements will be awarded through the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program to states and qualified State Designated Entities (SDEs) to develop and advance mechanisms for
information sharing across the health care system.
The grants are designed to help doctors and hospitals acquire electronic health records and use them in meaningful ways to improve the health of patients and reduce waste and inefficiency...They will also help states lead the way in creating the infrastructure for health information exchange, which enables information to follow patients within and across communities, wherever the information is needed to help doctors and patients make the best decisions about medical care...
...The Department of Health and Human Services will also provide additional assistance to health care providers through the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC). The HITRC will gather relevant information on effective practices from a wide variety of sources across the country and help the Regional Extension Centers collaborate with one another and with relevant stakeholders to identify and share best practices in EHR adoption, effective use, and provider support...
Read on at: http://HealthIT.HHS.gov for more information.
Attached are two detailed fact sheets explaining these funding opportunities:
1)Health Information Technology Extension Program, and
2) State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program.
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