In The News
Arizona Health-e Connection Featured on ABC 15 News
ABC 15 News
Brian McElhatten
September 6, 2010
Rules clarified for electronic medical records grants
Phoenix Business Journal
Angela Gonzales
July 13, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final "meaningful use" rule for electronic medical record implementation, answering questions from Arizona health providers.
RECs focused on helping small physician offices
Healthcare IT News
Patty Enrado
July 1, 2010
It's been said that small physician offices must embrace EHRs in order for the federal stimulus programs for health IT to be successful. It's no wonder regional extension centers, designated by the Department of Health and Human Services to provide health IT support services to primary care providers and hospitals across the country, are embracing that belief...
Arizona's Regional Extension Center: An Opportunity to Make Healthcare Higher in Quality and Lower in Costs through Adoption of Electronic Health Records
AzMedicine - Arizona Medical Association Journal
Summer 2010
"Congress, the executive branch, leaders of health care organizations, public and private purchasers...should make a renewed national commitment to building an information infrastructure to support health care delivery, consumer health, quality measurement and improvement, public accountability, clinical and health services research, and clinical education. This commitment should lead to the elimination of most handwritten clinical data by the end of the decade." - Crossing the Quality Chasm (Institute of Medicine, 2001)
The above recommendation was made at the start of this century. As we near the end of its fi rst decade, federal funds allocated in 2009 through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), have created an unprecedented investment in and opportunity for such a sweeping recommendation to come to fruition...
Webinar: HITRC gearing up for RECs to 'convene and connect'
HealthImaging.com
Jeff Byers
May 27, 2010
The Health IT Resource Center (HITRC) structure to convene and connect regional extension centers (RECs) and the health IT industry could also set the stage for the RECs themselves to provide a common forum for providers in their area, according to Melissa Rutala, MPH, director of the Arizona Health-e Connection Regional Extension Center, during a webinar hosted by healthcare nonprofit eHealth Initiative on RECs...
Phoenix institute tests real-world solutions for health care delivery
Examiner.com Phoenix
Ruth Ann Monti
May 26, 2010
The health care delivery system is basically broken--it takes too long to deliver services, it is unsafe, and its costs are out of control, HTI co-founder Lyle Bootman told a Webinar audience sponsored by the Arizona Health-e Connection this morning. Bootman, who is the Dean of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, says HTI's role is to be a "'do tank' to make things happen."...
Electronic Medical Records Take Closer Step Toward Arizona
Examiner.com Phoenix
Ruth Ann Monti
May 6, 2010
A coalition of medical and IT groups has received a $10.7 million grant from the federal office responsible to encourage physicians to adopt electronic medical record technologies...
Health-e Connection Helping Docs Go Paperless
Angela Gonzales
Phoenix Business Journal
April 22, 2010
Arizona Health-e Connection is getting $10.8 million in stimulus funding to help primary-care doctors, small hospitals and community health centers set up electronic health record systems...
$10.8 Million Grant to Help Computerize Health Charts
Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
April 13, 2010
An Arizona non-profit has secured a $10.8 million federal award to help primary-care physicians establish and use computerized health-records systems....
The Health Internet: The Future of Health Information Technology & Exchange?
AOMA Digest
Winter 2010
Brad Tritle, CIPP, Executive Director of AzHeC, and Melissa Rutala, MPH, Associate Director of AzHeC, discuss the background of health information technology for improving healthcare and explore a concept that is gaining momentum - the idea of a National Health Internet.
Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal
Spring 2009
Brad Tritle, CIPP, Executive Director of AzHeC discusses the recent history, future and importance of the electronic health record to improving the quality and safety of medical care in Arizona.
Arizona groups survey public attitudes on health information exchange
Government Health IT - a HIMSS Publication
February 26, 2009
Health organizations in southwestern Arizona are seeking public feedback on plans for starting a health information exchange in Yuma County.
Medicare selects four companies where beneficiaries can maintain their personal health records
CMS Office of Public Affairs
November 12, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced the selection of four personal health record (PHR) companies to participate in the new Medicare PHR Choice Pilot in Arizona and Utah.
This pilot program will, beginning in early 2009, offer beneficiaries with Original Medicare the opportunity to choose one of the selected PHR companies to maintain their health record information electronically...
Arizona picked for Google health-file experiment
Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
November 13, 2008
Arizona seniors will be pioneers in a Medicare program that encourages patients to store their medical histories on Google or other commercial Web sites as part of a government effort to streamline and improve health care...
NHIN Watch Perspective: Arizona Health-e Connection on a roll
Patty Enrado
NHINWatch.com
October 2, 2007
Last week, September 26, Arizona Health-e Connection was awarded the 2007 Innovation Award by the Council of State Governments for its best practices, innovation and the ability of its model to be duplicated in other states looking to drive health information technology, or HIT, adoption and initiatives...
Big goal: Link all health files electronically
Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
August 29, 2007
A non-profit group spearheading the push for Arizona's medical industry to enter the 21st century has named a new executive director. And Brad Tritle's job is not small...
Goal Is Electronic Health Records. Path Is State by State.
Reed Abelson
New York Times
September 27, 2006
In the nation's ambitious quest to bring information technology to the practice of medicine, state governments are beginning to play a critical role in shepherding new systems into hospitals and doctors' offices, health experts say. Governors and legislators, for starters, are embarking on a variety of strategies to encourage the use of electronic health records and other innovations...
Arizona Seizes Initiative with 'Health-e Connection' Project
Knowledge@W.P.Carey
April 06, 2006
Arizona's health information technology (HIT) industry, and the manner in which health care is delivered, are on the brink of radical transformation as a state-facilitated steering committee for the Arizona Health-e Connection prepares to publish its recommended road map for development and implementation of a statewide, unified HIT network....
