State Group To Receive Federal Grant To Promote Health Information Technology
by July 29, 2015 5:42 am 92 views
The Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology was among the 20 awardees for three health information technology grant programs totaling about $38 million, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced Tuesday.
The grants are part of the Obama administration’s efforts to create an interoperable learning health system that achieves better care, smarter spending and healthier people.
The grants build on programs funded from the Health Information Technology and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), part of the American Recovery and Revitalization Act (ARRA) of 2009.
The grants will further HHS’s efforts to improve the way providers are paid, improve and innovate in care delivery, and share information more broadly to providers, consumers, and others to support better health care decisions while maintaining privacy, according to a news release.
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