New $19.5 Million Grant Expands Health IT in Underserved Communities
Jul 1st, 2010 | By HITECHhelper | Category: Regional Extension Centers, health IT Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) was awarded a $19.5 million grant to aid providers with the adoption, implementation, and meaningful use of Electronic Health Record systems. The funding is also intended to help build Georgia’s Health Information Technology workforce.
The U.S. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 established a health information technology (HIT) extension program, which consists of regional extension centers and a national health information technology research center (HITRC). The HITECH program named MSM as one of approximately 70 regional extension centers across the U.S. These centers will provide support for over 100,000 priority primary care providers with an emphasis on implementing electronic health records systems and training health information technology workers in underserved areas.
Under the grant, the National Center for Primary Care (NCPC) of MSM will oversee the Georgia HIT Extension Center (GA-HITREC), which will consist of 18 “adoption centers” that will overlay the 18 public health districts that exist in Georgia. Managing the project at MSM is Dominic H. Mack, M.D., M.B.A., deputy director at NCPC. Mack says GA-HITREC will support health care providers to become meaningful users of EHR by providing technical assistance and implementing “best practices.”
Mack explains that GA-HITREC is assembling outreach/education and technical teams to attain the program’s objectives, including expanding the HIT workforce in Georgia. This will be accomplished in collaboration with the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) and the statewide health information exchange that’s being created using a community-oriented approach.
A part of MSM’s role is to help providers select an EHR system, then help with the installation and implementation. “Not only will we ensure that the EHR system has the functionality the providers needs, but that it is being used in a meaningful way by providing training and other support.”
Mack said once they become meaningful users, they become eligible for payments from Medicare and Medicaid which helps pay for EHR hardware and software. “The federal initiatives actually help providers in two ways: the extension center program funds the technical support needed for the selection and implementation of EHR and the CMS payment incentives puts the money in the provider’s hands to purchase the software and hardware. Mack said MSM was selected as the sole recipient in Georgia because of its reputation for successful outreach programs for the underserved. “I believe we were selected because of our established partnerships throughout the state, plus our tradition of serving the under-served population and helping those in need. I believe that shined through and led to our selection,” he said. This will help lower, and hopefully eliminate, the disparate gap for technology, health care, and health of the community.”
Mack says one goal, is to develop a national reputation. “Our intent is to provide a high level of quality services to our customers in order to build a national reputation as a reliable HIT resource for providers. In four to five years I expect we will have a robust Web center and call center, and when physicians need services for HIT, they turn to us.”
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