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U.S. ONC (Office of the National Coordinator) Offers Guidance on Health IT Extension Centers
Colleagues,
As reported in iHealthBeat ... On Thursday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hosted a Web briefing on its plans to distribute nearly $600 million in grants intended to help build a national network of health IT training centers ...
...Farzad Mostashari, ONC senior adviser, said the government will award grants of $8.5 million to $9 million to help not-for-profit organizations establish 70 regional health IT extension centers nationwide ...
... the National Health IT Research Center will receive $50 million to serve as a resource to the regional centers ... ONC said it hopes each extension center will train about 1,500 primary care providers on electronic health record adoption, with the goal of helping 100,000 primary care providers demonstrate "meaningful use" of health IT...
... Mostashari said the grant program first will strive to provide health IT training to primary care providers and group practices with 10 or fewer physicians...He added that the program also plans to offer services to health care providers in community health centers, public hospitals and rural clinics...
Read on at: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2009/8/28/onc-offers-guidance-o...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in iHealthBeat ... On Thursday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hosted a Web briefing on its plans to distribute nearly $600 million in grants intended to help build a national network of health IT training centers ...
...Farzad Mostashari, ONC senior adviser, said the government will award grants of $8.5 million to $9 million to help not-for-profit organizations establish 70 regional health IT extension centers nationwide ...
... the National Health IT Research Center will receive $50 million to serve as a resource to the regional centers ... ONC said it hopes each extension center will train about 1,500 primary care providers on electronic health record adoption, with the goal of helping 100,000 primary care providers demonstrate "meaningful use" of health IT...
... Mostashari said the grant program first will strive to provide health IT training to primary care providers and group practices with 10 or fewer physicians...He added that the program also plans to offer services to health care providers in community health centers, public hospitals and rural clinics...
Read on at: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2009/8/28/onc-offers-guidance-o...
ENJOY!
CC
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