Health Choice Network has been awarded a three-year $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to improve the level of patient care through the expansion of health information technology at 32 participating community health centers in 11 states. Health Choice Network (HCN) is one of 37 health center controlled networks to receive the funding through the Affordable Care Act, announced by HRSA in December.
The grant will fund the expansion and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR), as well as supporting technology-enabled quality-improvement strategies, health data aggregation and the establishment of health centers as patient centered medical homes. HCN provides its members with cost-effective health IT, training and support services to improve the efficiency and accessibility of care. The grant will impact a total of 154 delivery sites and more than 600,000 high-need patients in underserved communities.
The project will insure that all participating health centers will have implemented certified EHR systems and all eligible providers will be using certified systems. At least 90 percent of the eligible providers will have registered, attested and received EHR incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
