By admin, on November 13th, 2011%
Stakeholder Awareness of Beacon Program Services Surveyed by AcademyHealth, The Commonwealth Fund and ONC
To ensure that the information needs and values of key community leaders are better understood by the Beacon Communities, AcademyHealth, with support from The Commonwealth Fund and in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), conducted a series . . . → Read More: Stakeholder Awareness of Beacon Program Services
By admin, on December 21st, 2010%
Improving Health Through Health Information Technology
The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program provides funding to 17 selected communities throughout the United States that have already made inroads in the development of secure, private, and accurate systems of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information exchange. The Beacon Program will support these communities to build and strengthen . . . → Read More: The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program
By admin, on September 15th, 2010%
Grants awarded to 27 Public Health Training Centers
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the award of $16.8 million to support 27 Public Health Training Centers (PHTC) at schools of public health and other public or non-profit institutions across the country. The PHTC Program helps improve the public health system by . . . → Read More: HHS awards $16.8 million to train public health workforce
By admin, on August 30th, 2010%
Beacon Communities Demonstrating Meaningful Use of Health IT
Beacon Community Awardee
Funding Amount
Beacon Community Goals for Population Health in Service Area
Community Services Council of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla.
$12,043,948
Leverage broad community partnerships with hospitals, providers, payers, and government agencies to expand a community-wide care coordination system, which will increase appropriate referrals for cancer screenings, decrease unnecessary specialist visits and (with . . . → Read More: Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program
By admin, on August 16th, 2010%
Beacon Community Program
A grant program for communities to build and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) infrastructure and exchange capabilities. These communities will demonstrate the vision of a future where hospitals, clinicians, and patients are meaningful users of health IT, and together the community achieves measurable improvements in health care quality, safety, efficiency, and population . . . → Read More: Beacon Community Program
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