Texas Regional Extension Centers Help Electronic Health Record Usage
Texas’ four regional extension center grant recipients include the
In Texas, the Gulf Coast REC at UTHealth is joined by three other regional extension centers at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Texas A&M University and the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Education and Research Foundation. Collectively, the state RECs received $35.7 million, and there is a collaborative working group to coordinate their efforts.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) is playing a big role in advancing the move toward computerized medical records. UTHealth was recently awarded two federal stimulus grants totaling $30.3 million. One is to help health care providers implement these computerized systems and the other is to make these systems more user-friendly.
Texas Receives $35.7 Million To Implement Electronic Medical Records
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced an award of $35,709,106 to four Health Information Technology Texas Regional Extension Centers (RECs) to assist physicians and healthcare professionals implement statewide electronic medical records.
Texas Health Institute and partners TMF Health Quality Institute and Texas Medical Association have been providing assistance to the four REC applicants which applied for funding. The four Texas Regional Extension Centers were funded as follows:
North Texas Regional HIT Extension Center Consortium – $8,488,513
West Texas – $6,666,296
CentrEast Regional Extension Center – $5,279,970
Gulf Coast HITECH Extension Center – $15,274,327
TxRECs Joint Funding Announcement
Gulf Coast REC press announcement
North Texas REC press announcement
To learn more, go to the Texas Regional Extension Centers website.
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