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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.
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Press Releases
September 23, 2010
Phoenix, Ariz. - On September 10, 2010, Arizona Health-e Connection received $240,000 in funding from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to ensure critical services for digitizing health records are available to assist 20 critical access and rural hospitals in Arizona.
April 27, 2010
Phoenix, Ariz. - A coalition led by Arizona Health-e Connection, a statewide non-profit charged with leading Arizona's health information technology coordination, has been awarded $10,791,644 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to develop an Arizona Regional Extension Center to assist state healthcare providers in adopting electronic health records and achieving "meaningful use" of them as defined by the federal government, which will enable receipt of Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments under the American Recovery and REinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)...
New AHCCCS Director to Serve on Board of Nonprofit Leading State Efforts to Advance Health IT
November 10, 2009
Phoenix, Ariz. - Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC), a statewide nonprofit leading the establishment of health information infrastructure (HII) in Arizona, announces Thomas J. Betlach, newly appointed director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), to its board of directors.
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