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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 AwardeeAward 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 AwardeeAward 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 RecipientAward 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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State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program

February 12th, 2010

State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program Awards

Early 2010 marked the first announcement of awards to 40 states and State Designated Entities (SDE) under HITECH’s State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program. This Program funds states’ efforts to rapidly build capacity for exchanging health information across the health care system both within and across states. Awardees are responsible for increasing connectivity and enabling patient-centric information flow to improve the quality and efficiency of care. Key to this is the continual evolution and advancement of necessary governance, policies, technical services, business operations, and financing mechanisms for HIE over each State and SDE’s four-year performance period. This Program is building on existing efforts to advance regional and state level health information exchange while moving toward nationwide interoperability.

Over the next several weeks the remaining cooperative agreements will be awarded to approved applicants; these awardees will join the 40 awardees announced today in advancing mechanisms for health information sharing in their states and across the country.

State grantees in the first series of awards:

  • Rhode Island Quality Institute
  • State of Oregon
  • Georgia Department of Community Health
  • Kansas Health Information Exchange Project
  • Cabinet for Health and Family Services (KY)
  • Missouri Depart of Social Services
  • Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
  • Health Care Authority (Washington)
  • Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform Commonwealth of PA
  • Virginia Department of Health
  • State of Maine/Governor’s Office of Health Policy & Finance
  • The Hawaii Health Information Exchange
  • Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
  • Government of the District of Columbia
  • Minnesota Department of Health
  • Virgin Islands Department of Health
  • Oticina del Gobernador La Fortaeza (PR)
  • Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
  • New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
  • Alabama Medicaid Agency
  • California Health and Human Services Agency
  • Utah Department of Health
  • Vermont Department of Human Services
  • Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation
  • Lovelace Clinic Foundation (New Mexico)
  • State of Tennessee
  • North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
  • West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
  • Arkansas Dept of Finance and Administration
  • Delaware Health Information Network
  • Michigan Department of Health
  • New York eHealth Collaborative, Inc.
  • Oklahoma Health Care Authority
  • Pacific Ecommerce Development Corporation (American Samoa)
  • Ohio Health Information Partnership, LLC
  • Arizona Governor’s Office of Economic Recovery
  • Nevada Department of Health and Human Services
  • Office of the Governor (Guam)
  • Commonwealth of the NMI, Department of Public Health
  • Office of the Governor (WY)
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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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AMGA MGMA Perot to Provide Services to Regional Extension Centers

October 9th, 2009

AMGA, MGMA and Perot Form Alliance for Services to New Regional Extension Centers

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA), the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) today announced the formation of an alliance of the three organizations to offer electronic health record (EHR)-related training and implementation services to newly established Health Information Technology (HIT) Regional Extension Centers (RECs or Extension Centers).

“The HIT Regional Extension Centers are going to play a critical role in helping targeted physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers recognize the benefits of Health Information Technology and how it will improve patient care and healthcare economics,” said Donald Fisher, Ph.D., President and CEO of AMGA. “Through the Alliance, we are prepared to help these newly established Extension Centers have an immediate impact in their designated regions by providing a number of key services and competitive solutions.”

“MGMA is committed to helping medical group practices make the right decisions when it comes to implementing EHRs and making other critical technology decisions,” said William Jessee, M.D., FACMPE, President and CEO of MGMA. “We believe this partnership represents a natural extension of our mission, and we are pleased to be a part of the team helping the Extension Centers achieve this critical mission.”

“The services the Alliance can provide are geared towards educating physician practices, hospitals and other qualifying healthcare organizations about EHR and HIE technology,” said Chuck Lyles, president of Perot Systems healthcare group. “This will allow these groups to make the most informed decision about the appropriate EHR for their organization and how they can successfully manage the implementation and integration into their current workflows.”

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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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