Livingston Community Health Services, acting as the lead organization on behalf of the Central Valley Collaborative (CVC), a five-member health information technology (HIT) health center controlled network (HCCN) has been awarded a Rural Health Technology Network Development Grant. Funds will be used to advance the implementation of CVC’s “Health -Safety-Net High Impact EHR Project”.
The CVC mission is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of healthcare for low income and medically underserved populations, including the uninsured and underinsured residing in the San Joaquin Central Valley of California. CVC Participating Organizations (POs)have partnered to collaborate on Electronic Health Record (EHR) deployment and several other patient-centered HIT innovations. The aim of CVC’s “Health-Safety-Net High Impact EHR Project ” is to support CVC POs with the acquisition, implementation and “meaningful use” of an EHR and other mission driven HIT systems, thereby ensuring they have the tools available to prepare for stage 1 “meaningful use” as defined by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information. Moreover, the systems proposed for implementation will work synergistically to enhance the PO’s capacity to measure and effectively report on the quality of care and health outcomes in their health centers and will further enable quality improvement activities to improve such outcomes.
Below is a link to the official announcement:
HHS announces $11.9 million to implement health information technology in rural areas
