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$267 Million for New Health IT Regional Extension Centers

April 11th, 2010

$267 Million Awarded to Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers (RECs).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on April 6th, that more than $267 million has been awarded to 28 additional non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers (RECs).

Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center Awardees

AwardeesArea of ResponsibilityFederal Share
Alaska eHealth Network, Anchorage, AlaskaAK$3,632,357
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala.AL$7,519,969
Arizona Health-e Connection, Phoenix, Ariz.AZ$10,791,644
Local Initiative Health Authority for Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, Calif.CA$15,625,910
eHealthConnecticut, Inc., Rocky Hill, Conn.CT$5,749,309
Quality Insights of Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, Del.DE$5,859,716
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla.FL$7,669,328
Community Health Centers Alliance, Inc, St. Petersburg, Fla.FL$10,982,866
University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla.FL$5,884,132
Hawaii Health Information Exchange, Honolulu, HawaiiHI, Pacific Territories$5,859,716
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, Ky.KY$6,005,467
Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Baton Rouge, La.LA$6,207,802
HealthInfoNet, Manchester, MaineME$4,777,483
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients, Baltimore, Md.MD$5,535,423
eQHealth Solutions, Inc , Baton Rouge, La.MS$4,289,613
The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.MO$6,836,335
Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation, Helena, Mont.MT,WY$5,020,754
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.NJ$23,048,351
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania Inc. (Eastern), King of Prussia, Pa.PA$28,810,271
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania Inc. (Western), King of Prussia, Pa.PA$15,625,910
Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto RicoPR,VI$19,280,796
South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia, S.C.SC$5,581,407
Dakota State University, Madison, S.D.SD$5,687,168
The TAMUS Health Science Center Research Foundation. College Station, TexasTX$5,279,970
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TexasTX$15,274,327
Dallas- Fort Worth Hospital Council Education and Research Foundation, Irving, TexasTX$8,488,513
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Lubbock, TexasTX$6,666,296
National Indian Health Board, District of ColumbiaUS$15,625,910
Total $267,616,743

“Regional extension centers will provide the needed hands-on, field support for all health care providers to advance the rapid adoption and use of health IT. RECs are a vital part of our overall efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of health care through the effective use of health IT,” said Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology.

Complete listing of REC grant recipients and additional information about the Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers, see http://HealthIT.hhs.gov/programs/REC/.

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HHS Awards $144 Million for Higher Education and Research

April 11th, 2010

Academia and the Research Community Will Support Health Providers

Awards totaling $84 million to 16 universities and junior colleges will support training and development of more than 50,000 new health IT professionals.

Additionally Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) awards totaling $60 million were provided to four advanced research institutions ($15 million each) to focus on solving current and future challenges that represent barriers to adoption and meaningful use of health IT.

Community College Consortia Program ($36 million):

The Community College Consortia Program provides assistance to five regional recipients to establish a multi-institutional consortium within each designated region. The five regional consortia will include 70 community colleges in total. Each college will create non-degree training programs that can be completed in six months or less by individuals with appropriate prior education and/or experience. First year grant awards are estimated at $36 million. An additional $34 million is available for year two funding of these programs after successful completion of a mid-project evaluation.

InstitutionAmount of Award
Bellevue College
Bellevue, Washington		$ 3,364,798
Cuyahoga Community College District
Cleveland, Ohio		$ 7,531,403
Los Rios Community College District
Sacramento, California		$ 5,435,587
Pitt Community College
Winterville, North Carolina		$10,901,009
Tidewater Community College
Norfolk, Virginia		$ 8,492,793

Curriculum Development Center ($10 million):

The Curriculum Development Centers will develop educational materials for key health IT topics to be used by the members of the Community College Consortia program. The materials will also be made available to institutions of higher education across the country. One of the centers will receive additional assistance to act as the National Training and Dissemination Center (NTDC) for the curriculum materials.

InstitutionAmount of Award
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama		$1,820,000
The Trustees of Columbia University
New York City, New York		$1,820,000
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina		$1,820,000
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland		$1,820,000
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon		$2,720,000*

*(Will also receive the NTDC awards)

University-Based Training Programs ($32 million):

The University-based training programs will produce trained professionals for vital, highly specialized health IT roles. Most trainees in these programs will complete intensive courses of study in 12-months or less and receive a university-issued certificate of advanced training.  Other trainees supported by these grants will study toward masters’ degrees.

InstitutionAmount of Award
The Trustees of Columbia University
New York City, New York		$3,786,677
University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing
Denver, Colorado		$2,622,186
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina		$2,167,121
George Washington University
District of Columbia		$4,612,313
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana		$1,406,469
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland		$3,752,512
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota		$5,145,705
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon		$3,085,812
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas		$5,421,205

Competency Examination Program ($6 million):

This program will support the development and initial administration of a set of health IT competency examinations. The program will create an objective measure to assess basic competency for individuals trained in short-term, non degree health IT programs and for members of the workforce seeking to demonstrate their competency in certain health IT workforce roles.

InstitutionAmount of Award
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, Virginia		$6,000,000

Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program ($60 million):

The SHARP program recognizes the critical importance of research to support improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare by creating “breakthrough” advances in information technology. The SHARP program targets four areas where improvements in technology are needed. The four SHARP award recipients, their areas of research focus and funding are:

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill. – Security of Health Information Technology – Developing security and risk mitigation policies and the technologies necessary to build and preserve the public trust as Health IT systems gain widespread use. $15 million.
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas – Patient-Centered Cognitive Support – Harnessing the power of Health IT so that it integrates with, enhances and supports clinicians’ reasoning and decision-making. $15 million.
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College, Boston, Mass. – Healthcare Application and Network Platform Architectures – Developing new and improved architectures that will leverage benefits of today’s architecture and focus on the flexibility and scalability needs for the future to address significant increases in capture, storage and analysis of data. $15 million.
  • Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. – Secondary Use of EHR Data– Strategies to make use of data that will be stored in EHRs for improving the overall quality of health care, while maintaining data privacy and security. $15 million.

Information about the HITECH awards available through the workforce development program is available at http://HealthIT.HHS.gov/ and www.grants.gov.

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Regional Extension Center (REC) Awards for Support Contracts

April 11th, 2010

Support, Training, Marketing and Outreach in Region Extension Centers (RECs)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded competitive task orders for Support, Training, Marketing and Outreach in Region Extension Centers (RECs) for the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to support the Regional Extension Centers (RECs) funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Support for Marketing and Outreach in Region Extension Centers (RECs)

Award Date – 3/31/2010

Award Amount – $3,288,743.00

Description – This task order is for Support for Marketing and Outreach in Region Extension Centers (RECs) for the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC)

Awardee – The Lewin Group, Inc., 3130 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 800, Falls Church, Virginia 22042, United States

Practice Transformation Model System in Various Primary Care Settings

Award Date – 3/31/2010

Awardee-  RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2194

Award Amount – $3,606,822

Description – This task order is for planning, implementation and maintenance of a Practice Transformation model system in various primary care settings for the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to support the Regional Exchange Centers (RECs) funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Planning, Implementation and Maintenance of a Training Program

Award Date – 3/31/2010

Awardee – Booz Allen Hamilton, 1101 Wooton Parkway, 8th Floor, Rockville, Maryland 20852

Award Amount – $9,198,119

Description- This task order is for planning, implementation and maintenance of a training program for the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to support the Regional Exchange Centers (RECs) funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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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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