Health Information Technolgy (HIT) Funding by State
Alaska – Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network Project, $30 million
Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN) Financial Summary
AFHCAN was designed as a four-year (1999-2002) project with an estimated $30,000,000 budget. Through the fourth year of the project, AFHCAN has received $29,367,002 plus $643,741 interest payments. Through FY 2002, the AFHCAN Project received funds from Indian Health Service ($16,000,000), Department of Defense ($4,733,000), Veterans Administration ($1,750,000), and a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services ($6,852,000). The AFHCAN Project has met its objectives within the four-year timeline while remaining under budget. Project-to-date, the AFHCAN Project Office has expended 26% of its funds on operations to include software development, 23% on site funds, 25% on equipment, 2% on network, research and development, and ATAC. AFHCAN has committed over $2,000,000 for the first year of transition planning for FY03.”
Arizona – FY06/07 HIT Grant Program 1.5 million
California - $240 million - 200 in investment funds and 40 in grants
http://www.chcf.org/press/view.cfm?itemID=125689
8/24/07 - $25 million in new grants for healthcare technology projects will be awarded to underserved parts of the state http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7633
Kentucky – $4.1 million for competitive health information exchange grants
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/16499607.htm
A cooperative effort between St. Claire Regional Medical Center and Morehead State University has yielded a $81,000 grant from the state to help health providers in the region implement electronic medical records and e-prescribing...
http://www.themoreheadnews.com/msunews/local_story_025203410.html
Massachusetts - $50 million from BCBS
http://www.businessword.com/index.php/weblog/comments/massachusetts
_blues_funding_50_million_pilot_statewide_electronic_medical_r/
Michigan - $9 million for pilot projects. $4.5 million in fiscal 2007 budget for grant funds to support regional health information exchange initiatives. http://healthdatamanagement.com/HDMSearchResultsDetails.cfm?articleId=15425
Minnesota
10/22/07 - …Grants totaling $3.5 million to help Minnesota providers develop electronic health records systems.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7988
8/27/07 - $14 million to assist smaller practices with implementing the EHR and eRx technology
http://www.smartbrief.com/news/ehealth/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=
A07CD49E-1E2D-4EB5-8BC4-7E39EE42E407©id=1DEEAEFC-
BFC2-450C-B4B8-290EC9F5E35F&lmcid=3338532&brief=ehealth
12/6/06 - $1.5 million to support the adoption of electronic health records in rural and underserved areas of the state
http://www.health.state.mn.us/news/pressrel/ehealth120606.html
New Mexico - $1.5 million grant for 3 years to establish and implement a community-wide health information exchange, the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC
New York –
Friday, March 28, 2008 N.Y. grants to be used to unify EMRs
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. David Paterson announced Friday $105 million in grants to help develop a unified system of electronic medical records for New Yorkers he said would reduce errors and duplicative testing…
View Article: Forbes.com - http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/03/28/ap4827912.html
Friday, March 28, 2008 Grant funds will be used to install EMR system, image repository
The federal government has earmarked nearly $500,000 in grant funding for the new for-profit Bayonne Medical Center to help install an electronic medical record system… Yesterday, hospital employees greeted Rep. Albio Sires, D-West New York, with a large banner expressing thanks for his aid in reserving the money from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. BMC President/CEO Daniel Kane called Sires a "staunch supporter" of the hospital. BMC Interim Chief Information Officer David Parry said the $487,000 will help pay for a combination of hardware and software to assemble, in part, an online repository of patient images culled from X-rays, CATs, and MRIs … Parry estimated that it would cost between $3 million and $4 million to complete the system…
View Article: The Jersey Journal -
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1206683718273260.xml&coll=3
$53 million through 26 grants to multi-stakeholder clinical data sharing projects across the State and an additional $1.5 billion in federal funding to be invested in the state's health care reform initiatives designed to right-size the acute care delivery system, restructure the delivery of long-term care services and foster the adoption of health information technology.
$1.7 million in state funding was approved for the Health Information Exchange of New York, known as HIXNY, for “a statewide medical database that could put a patient's health records at any doctor's fingertips”.
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=604557&category=
BUSINESS&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=7/10/2007
RFP will be issued late summer, 2007, for $106 million to advance the technology required to achieve an interoperable health information exchange and a quality measurement and reporting capability.
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/129711
Oregon - $349,000 contract with Research Triangle International in partnership with the National Governors Association to create assess to privacy and security laws and business practices with regard to the exchange of electronic health information
Rhode Island - $20 million revenue bond to support the building of the Health Information Exchange
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=99855
Tennessee - $6.8 million in federal funds from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop EMRs and related health informatics technology over the next five years and a $72,000 grant to the Tennessee chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society to assess how well-equipped the state is to create a statewide eHealth network. The project will begin November 1, 2006 and issue a report to the e-Health Advisory Council by April of 2007
Vermont - $500,000 startup funds provided in 2007 budget to be “…the first state to offer universal access to broadband and wireless technology everywhere within its borders" by 2010.
http://www.vermont.gov/tools/whatsnew2/index.php?topic=GovPressReleases&id=2261&v=Article
Virginia - $1.5 million
Washington State - $1 million
Wisconsin - $30 million to increase the use of electronic medical record systems, reducing medical errors, improving safety and decreasing health care costs
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel
_story.php?id=103539&utm_source=gten_070125&utm_medium=enews&utm_content=story
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