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State HIE, REC and Job Training Grant Recipients

February 12th, 2010

State HIE, REC and Job Training Grant Recipients for Health IT, Training Workers for Health Jobs of the Future

A complete listing of the state HIE, REC and job training grant recipients is as follows:

State HIE Awards:

State HIE Awardee	Award Amount
Alabama Medicaid Agency	$10,564,789
Arizona Governor’s Office of Economic Recovery	$9,377,000
Arkansas Dept of Finance and Administration	$7,909,401
California Health and Human Services Agency	$38,752,536
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization	$9,175,777
Delaware Health Information Network	$4,680,284
Government of the District of Columbia	$5,189,709
Georgia Department of Community Health	$13,003,003
Office of the Governor (Guam)	$1,600,000
The Hawaii Health Information Exchange	$5,602,318
Illinois Department of Health care and Family Services	$18,837,639
Kansas Health Information Exchange Project	$9,010,066
Cabinet for Health and Family Services (Kentucky)	$9,750,000
State of Maine/Governor’s Office of Health Policy & Finance	$6,599,401
Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation	$10,599,719
Michigan Department of Health	$14,993,085
Minnesota Department of Health	$9,622,000
Missouri Depart of Social Services	$13,765,040
Nevada Department of Health and Human Services	$6,133,426
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services	$5,457,856
Lovelace Clinic Foundation, New Mexico	$7,070,441
New York eHealth Collaborative Inc.	$22,364,782
Commonwealth of the NMI, Department of Public Health	$800,000
North Carolina Department of State Treasurer	$12,950,860
Ohio Health Information Partnership LLC	$14,872,199
Oklahoma Health Care Authority	$8,883,741
Pacific Ecommerce Development Corporation (American Samoa)	$600,000
State of Oregon	$8,579,992
Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform Commonwealth of Pennsylvania	$17,140,446
Oticina del Gobernador La Fortaeza (Puerto Rico)	$7,770,980
Rhode Island Quality Institute	$5,280,000
State of Tennessee	$11,664,580
Utah Department of Health	$6,296,705
Vermont Department of Human Services	$5,034,328
Virgin Islands Department of Health	$1,000,000
Virginia Department of Health	$11,613,537
Health Care Authority (Washington)	$11,300,000
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources	$7,819,000
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services	$9,441,000
Office of the Governor (Wyoming)	$4,873,000
Total Award Amount	$385,978,640

Regional Extension Center Awards:

RECs Awardee	Award Amount
Altarum Institute, Michigan	$19,619,990
Arkansas Foundation For Medical Care	$7,400,000
CIMRO of Nebraska	$6,647,371
Colorado RHIO	$12,475,000
District of Columbia Primary Care Association	$5,488,437
Fund for Public Health New York	$21,754,010
Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge (Ohio-Kentucky)	$9,738,000
Health Choice Network, Inc.,Florida	$8,500,000
HealthInsight, Utah-Nevada	$6,917,783
Iowa IFMC	$5,508,019
Kansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc.	$7,000,000
Key Health Alliance (Stratis Health), Minnesota – North Dakota	$19,000,000
Lovelace Clinic, New Mexico	$6,175,000
Massachusetts Technology Park Cooperation	$13,433,107
MetaStar, Inc, Wisconsin	$9,125,000
Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc., Georgia	$19,521,542
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC)	$26,534,999
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	$13,569,169
Northern California Regional Extension Center	$17,286,081
Northern Illinois University	$7,546,000
Northwestern University	$7,649,533
OCHIN Inc. (Primary), Oregon	$13,201,499
Ohio Health Information Partnership	$28,500,000
Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, Inc.	$5,331,685
Purdue University	$12,000,000
Qsource (Tennessee)	$7,256,155
Qualis Health, Washington – Idaho	$12,846,482
Rhode Island Quality Institute	$6,000,000
Southern California Regional Extension Center	$13,961,339
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc.	$6,762,080
VHQC and the Center for Innovative Technology, for The Virginia Consortium	$12,425,000
West Virginia Health Improvement Institute Inc.	$6,000,000
Total Award Amount	$375,173,281

Job Training Awards:

Healthcare / High Growth Grant Recipient	Award Amount
Calhoun Community College	$3,470,830
Mid-South Community College	$3,391,053
South Arkansas Community College	$3,520,612
Kern Community College District (KCCD)	$2,768,572
Los Rios Community College District	$4,988,561
Mt. San Antonio Community College District	$2,239,714
San Diego State University Research Foundation	$4,953,575
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$5,000,000
San Bernardino Community College District	$4,260,863
Youth Policy Institute	$3,623,473
Spanish Speaking Unity Council	$3,559,139
Otero Junior College	$4,999,350
National Council of La Raza	$3,457,516
Providence Health Foundation of Providence Hospital	$4,953,999
DeKalb Technical College (DTC)	$2,043,859
Governors State University	$4,994,686
Indianapolis Private Industry Council, Inc.	$4,885,812
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana	$5,000,000
Iowa Workforce Development	$3,403,164
Maysville Community and Technical College	$2,007,637
Louisiana Technical College, Greater Acadiana Region 4	$4,859,040
Southern University at Shreveport	$4,296,308
Maine Department of Labor	$4,892,213
The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC)	$4,928,654
Macomb Community College	$4,971,642
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center	$5,000,000
Northland Community and Technical College	$4,996,844
MN State Colleges & Universities DBA Pine Technical College	$4,230,950
South Central College	$4,506,101
The Montgomery Institute	$4,519,625
Full Employment Council	$4,998,344
Crowder College	$3,576,760
Maryville University – St. Louis	$4,699,354
University of New Hampshire	$2,944,732
Passaic County Community College	$4,475,041
Fulton Montgomery Community College (FMCC)	$2,865,657
Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC)	$3,382,200
University Behavioral Associates, Inc.	$5,000,000
Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison, and Oneida Counties	$2,700,096
Goodwill Industries, Inc., Serving E. Neb and SW Iowa	$2,007,846
Nevada Cancer Institute	$3,262,676
Berea Children’s Home	$4,927,843
BioOhio	$5,000,000
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College	$4,935,132
Columbus State Community College	$4,605,303
Enterprise for Employment and Education	$2,373,073
Trident Technical College	$2,624,532
Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC)	$4,346,351
The University of South Dakota	$5,000,000
Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc.	$5,000,000
North Central Texas College	$4,150,005
San Jacinto Community College District	$4,722,919
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB)	$4,655,799
Shenandoah Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc. (SVWIB)	$4,951,991
Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board	$5,000,000
Total	$226,929,446

Additional information about the state HIE and RECs may be found at http://HealthIT.HHS.gov/statehie and http://healthit.hhs.gov/extensionprogram

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Nationwide Beacon Community Program for Health Information Exchange

December 6th, 2009

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish Health IT “Beacon Communities”

$235 million set aside to fund nationwide Beacon Community Program

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced today plans to make available $235 million to support an innovative Beacon Community Program. The program will work to accelerate and demonstrate the ability of health information technology to transform local health care systems, and improve the lives of Americans and the performance of the health care providers who serve them. The Beacon Community Program will include $220 million in grants to build and strengthen health IT infrastructure and health information exchange capabilities, including strong privacy and security measures for data exchange, within 15 communities. An additional $15 million will be provided for technical assistance to the communities and to evaluate the success of the program.

“Health information technology will make our health care system more efficient and improve care for every American,” Secretary Sebelius said. “The Beacon Community Program is a critical step forward as we work to expand the use of health information technology in hospitals and doctor’s offices across the country.”

Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Beacon Community Program will take communities at the cutting edge of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information exchange and push them to a new level of health care quality and efficiency. The program will establish cooperative agreements with communities to build and strengthen their health IT infrastructure and health information exchange capabilities to achieve measurable improvements in health care quality, safety, efficiency, and population health. The resulting experience will inform efforts throughout the United States to support the meaningful use of EHRs, the primary goal of the federal government’s new health IT initiative.

“We recognize that better health care does not come solely from the adoption of technology itself but through the ongoing private and secure exchange and use of health information to provide the best possible information at the point of patient care,” said Dr. Blumenthal.

Cooperative agreements will be awarded to 15 qualified non-profit organizations or government entities representing diverse geographic areas, including rural and underserved communities. To qualify for the Beacon Community Program, applicants are expected to:

Build off of existing health IT infrastructure and exchange to demonstrate care and cost savings;
Have rates of EHR adoption that are significantly higher than published national estimates; and,
Coordinate with recently announced Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) programs for Regional Extension Centers and State Health Information Exchanges to develop and disseminate best practices for adoption and meaningful use of EHRs to support national goals for widespread use of health IT.

“The Beacon Community Program will help provide more hard evidence that health IT exchange can make a significant and positive difference in the delivery and value of care,” stated Dr. Blumenthal.

Information about cooperative agreement applications will be available shortly at http://HealthIT.HHS.gov/.

For more information about the implementation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act programs in the US Department of Health and Human Services, please see: http://www.hhs.gov/recovery.

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The HITECH Foundation for Information Exchange

November 12th, 2009

The HITECH Foundation for Information Exchange

Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

A Message from Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

As the many activities mandated by the HITECH Act move forward, I want to take a moment to share my vision of the overarching goal and some of its implications. Our goal, above all else, is to make care better for patients, and to make it patient-centered. Information policy and health IT policy should serve that goal.

A key premise: information should follow the patient, and artificial obstacles – technical, business related, bureaucratic – should not get in the way. As a doctor, I have many times wanted access to data that I knew were buried in the computers or paper records of another health system across town. Neither my care nor my patients were well served in those instances. That is what we must get beyond. That is the goal we will pursue, and it will inform all our policy choices now and going forward. This means that information exchange must cross institutional and business boundaries. Because that is what patients need. Exchange within business groups will not be sufficient – the goal is to have information flow seamlessly and effortlessly to every nook and cranny of our health system, when and where it is needed, just like the blood within our arteries and veins meets our bodies’ vital needs.

If we are to reap the benefit of information exchange, Americans must also be assured that the most advanced technology and proven business practices will be employed to secure the privacy and security of their personal health information, both within and across electronic systems, and that persons and organizations who hold personal health data are trustworthy custodians of the information. We must have comprehensive, clear, and sustainable policies that strengthen existing protections, fill gaps as they emerge, fortify new opportunities for patients’ access to and control of their information, and align with evolving technologies. I will devote a separate letter to this critical issue and the many activities mandated by the HITECH Act that we are developing.
On the question of exchange, however, the HITECH Act is pretty specific about eliminating inappropriate barriers.

It squarely tackles the commercial barriers. The HITECH Act calls for the “development of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information and that…promotes a more effective marketplace, greater competition…[and] increased consumer choice” among other goals. (Section 3001(b)) This means we cannot support arrangements that restrict the secure, private exchange of information required for patient care across provider or network boundaries. Some of these arrangements may improve care for those inside their walls. But ultimately, they have the potential to carve the nation up into disconnected silos of information, and thus, to undermine the vision of a secure, interoperable, nationwide health information infrastructure, which the law requires us to establish. Consumers, patients and their caretakers should never feel locked into a single health system or exchange arrangement because it does not permit or encourage the sharing of information.

It tackles the economic barriers. The HITECH Act incentives for providers and hospitals are powerful tools. While the official definition of “Meaningful Use” won’t be finalized until next year, the HITECH Act specifically highlights “information exchange” as one requirement for the incentives.

It tackles the technical barriers. The HITECH Act focuses on “interoperability” or “interoperable products.” In plain English, this means that our policies, programs, and incentives must aim for electronic health record (EHR) software and systems that can share information with different EHRs and networks so that information can follow patients wherever they go. And to build the pipelines to carry this information, HHS is directed to invest in the infrastructure to “support the nationwide electronic exchange and use of health information …including connecting health information exchanges…” (Section 3011) This means we will work with all our partners in the health and IT industries and with organizations that are committed to information sharing to develop the technologies and policies that can help us deliver information securely, privately, and accurately to whomever needs to see it on behalf of the patient’s health. We must ensure interoperability for the future.

It provides building blocks for information exchange across jurisdictions. The grants for states and state-designated entities in Section 3013 – which will total $564 million – target information exchange across boundaries, not only within each state but explicitly as part of a nationwide framework. We will start announcing the awards this winter. These grantees’ activities must support interoperability that lets patient data follow the patient across political and geographic boundaries. The grantees will be our partners in building the nationwide infrastructure mentioned previously.

In short, the HITECH Act not only authorizes but requires us to mobilize all our policies, programs, and incentives to give the American people the patient-centric care they deserve and expect.

I look forward to engaging all our partners in this unique opportunity.

Regards,

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) encourages you to share this information as we work together to enhance the quality, safety and value of care and the health of all Americans through the use of electronic health records and health information technology.

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Health IT Policy Committee Information Exchange Workgroup Meeting

October 21st, 2009

Health IT Policy Committee Information Exchange Workgroup Meeting

Note about this meeting: The Workgroup will be hearing testimony from invited experts and stakeholders in the area of electronic exchange of laboratory information. They met on October 20, 2009. Here is a link to their agenda.

CALL TO ORDER
• Judy Sparrow, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Overview (warning: PPT file)

Overview of Meeting
• Deven McGraw, Chair, Information Exchange Workgroup
• Micky Tripathi, Co‐Chair, Information Exchange Workgroup Background
• Angela Brice-Smith, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Kelly Cronin, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Part I: Business Issues related to the Electronic Exchange of Laboratory Data
• Mike Nolte, GE Health Systems
• Vasu Manjrekar, eClinicalWorks
• Phil Marshall, WebMD
• Tim Ryan, Quest Diagnostics
• Susan Neill, Texas Department of State Health Services

Part II: Business Issues related to the Electronic Exchange of Laboratory Data
• Laura Rosas, New York City Primary Care Information Project
• Sarah Chouinard, Primary Care Systems, Inc. and Community Health Network of West Virginia
• Raymond Scott, Axolotl Corporation
• Areg Boyamyan and Jim Timmons, Foundation Laboratory

Regulatory and Policy Issues
• Joy Pritts, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
• Don Horton, LabCorp
• Jonah Frohlich, California Health and Human Service Agency
• Walter Sujansky, Sujansky & Associates

Public Comment

Some excerpts:

Laura Rosas, New York City Primary Care Information Project (PDF file):

“Unfortunately, electronic lab interfaces have proved to be one of the greatest barriers encountered in this project. Through great effort on the part of our EHR vendor, commercial laboratories, and the PCIP’s dedicated staff, we have managed to provide electronic lab interfaces to approximately two-thirds of our practices over a period of two years. It has proven nearly impossible under current processes to ensure that practices have an electronic laboratory interface at the same time that they go “live” on their EHR. Many of these practices waited months before they had an electronic interface, and subsequently needed to create complicated “workarounds” in the interim. On average, implementing, testing, and validating a lab interface for a PCIP practice takes about 10-14 weeks.”

Jonah Frohlich, California Health and Human Service Agency (PDF file)

“There is virtually no standardization of lab messaging in the industry today. In my experience working on ELINCS projects – initiatives that use highly constrained HL7 messages or “implementation guides” to support electronic lab results delivery – all hospitals needed considerable outside technical assistance to comply with the standard. Labs required assistance to adopt the LOINC coding scheme; a standard naming system for lab tests, and labs were unprepared to adopt SNOMED or UCUM; standard coding schemes for results and units of measures. The lab information systems the hospitals operated had internal “proprietary” codes for test names, and they had little expertise to “map” these codes to LOINC. These labs relied heavily on external technical assistance to do the necessary mapping for the most frequent 95% of reported tests as required by ELINCS – approximately 150 of the thousands of reportable tests in their databases.”

Vasu Manjrekar, eClinicalWorks (PDF file)

“Despite a concentrated effort on the part of eClinicalWorks and its Reference Lab partners over past several years, it has been difficult to provide electronic laboratory interface at go “live” on their EHR. Many of these practices wait months before they get an electronic interface, and subsequently needed to create “workarounds” in the interim. On average, implementing, testing, and validating a lab interface for a practice with National Reference Lab companies take about anywhere from 4-14 weeks.”

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New York HEAL NY Community-Based Health Information Technology

September 30th, 2009

New York Announces $60 Million Funding for HEAL NY

“HEAL NY” Funding Will Support Improvements in Health IT, Hospital Restructuring and Community-Based Services for Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities

HEAL NY Phase 10:
Nearly $60 million of the funding, through HEAL NY Phase 10, will go to community-based health information technology (IT) projects to build a more streamlined approach to sharing patient information. These projects will lead to significant savings in health care in the coming years. Unnecessary paperwork and redundancies throughout the system will be removed, and doctors and nurses will have better access to information of patients who transfers from one medical center to another.

These reforms are based on the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, which health care professionals believe to be the most effective in treating a patient – by establishing a partnership among doctors, nurses, patients and their families to ensure that patients have the support they need to participate in their own care.

HEAL NY Phase 11:
A second block of funding, HEAL NY Phase 11, consists of more than $174 million in grants to 25 hospitals across the State to enter into collaborative arrangements that promote quality and efficiency in the delivery of care appropriate to the needs of their communities.

These awards will help the recipient hospitals to eliminate duplicative services and achieve greater efficiency in providing services responsive to identified community needs. For example, the Catholic Health System’s merger of its three acute care hospitals in Western New York into its single governance structure will lead to a more efficient service line model – patients will get better care, and operating costs will go down. In New York City, an award to St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan will support that facility’s collaboration with NYU Hospitals Center to consolidate services in pediatrics, physical rehabilitation, psychiatry and cardiovascular care, while eliminating more than 60 beds that are no longer needed.

HEAL NY Phase 12:
Finally, the HEAL NY Phase 12 awards consist more than $172 million in grants to 19 applicants for projects to support long-term care services in community-based settings. The primary goal of these awards is to help communities organize, finance and develop alternatives to traditional nursing home while reducing of nursing homes’ certified inpatient bed capacity.

These awards will result in new community-based, long-term care options, including Assisted Living Programs, Assisted Living Residences, Enriched Housing Programs, and affordable senior housing with coordinated medical services.

A complete list of the HEAL NY awards by institution is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-b.pdf.

A complete list of the HEAL NY awards in Queens is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-a.pdf.

The following is a region-by-region list of HEAL NY Phase 10, 11 and 12 awards:

Total New York City Region Awards: $140,115,761

Phase 10 New York City Awards: $13,741,782
Phase 11 New York City Awards: $63,173,261
Phase 12 New York City Awards: $63,200,718

Total Northern Region Awards: $23,183,925

Phase 10 Northern Awards: $7,000,000
Phase 11 Northern Awards: $6,021,752
Phase 12 Northern Awards: $10,162,173

Total Western Region Awards: $67,839,658

Phase 10 Western Awards: $13,997,972
Phase 11 Western Awards: $23,399,321
Phase 12 Western Awards: $30,442,365

Total Central Region Awards: $72,320,205

Phase 10 Central Awards: $6,676,804
Phase 11 Central Awards: $23,856,401
Phase 12 Central Awards: $41,787,000

Total Hudson Valley Region Awards: $65,168,126

Phase 10 Hudson Valley Awards: $5,902,937
Phase 11 Hudson Valley Awards: $35,957,244
Phase 12 Hudson Valley Awards: $23,307,945

Total Long Island Region Awards: $37,694,355

Phase 10 Long Island Awards: $12,295,218
Phase 11 Long Island Awards: $21,935,797
Phase 12 Long Island Awards: $3,463,340

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State HIE, REC and Job Training Grant Recipients

State HIE, REC and Job Training Grant Recipients for Health IT, Training Workers for Health Jobs of the Future

Nationwide Beacon Community Program for Health Information Exchange

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish Health IT “Beacon Communities”

$235 million set aside to fund nationwide Beacon Community Program

The HITECH Foundation for Information Exchange

The HITECH Foundation for Information Exchange

Health IT Policy Committee Information Exchange Workgroup Meeting

Health IT Policy Committee Information Exchange Workgroup Meeting

New York HEAL NY Community-Based Health Information Technology

New York Announces $60 Million Funding for HEAL NY

“HEAL NY” Funding Will Support Improvements in Health IT, Hospital Restructuring and Community-Based Services for Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities

A complete list of the HEAL NY awards by institution is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-b.pdf.

A complete list of the HEAL NY awards in Queens is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-a.pdf.

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