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OU-HCOM Urging Switch to
Electronic Health Records
(Athens, Ohio) Kathy Jefford is driving all over Southeast Ohio
on a mission to improve the quality of
health care for local residents.
She's helping doctors to implement
electronic health records.
Jefford is with the Ohio University Heritage
College of Osteopathic Medicine and she's
directing a program to provide technical
assistance and training...
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Rural physicians benefit
from federal funding
100 additional providers will
implement electronic health records to
improve rural health care quality, lower
costs, save lives
(Athens, OH) The Ohio University Heritage
College of Osteopathic Medicine received
$450,000 in federal stimulus funds to assist
100 primary care providers in southeastern
Ohio with implementing
electronic health records in their
practices.
“We are the first Regional Extension Center
(REC) partner in the state to meet our goal,
so we’ve been awarded additional funding to
assist an additional 100 primary care
providers,” said Brian Phillips, chief of
medical informatics at OU-HCOM. Phillips is
referring to 404 primary care providers who
have already signed up to take part in a
technical assistance and training program on
implementing electronic health records
systems in their practices...
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Record Funding Award Given to Ohio
University College of Osteopathic Medicine
College to Open Extension Medical Campus in
Columbus, Further Diabetes Research
ATHENS, Ohio (April 30, 2011) – The
Osteopathic Heritage Foundations’ $105
million award to Ohio University’s College
of Osteopathic Medicine represents the
largest private donation ever given to a
college or university in Ohio. This gift
will be used to address some of the most
pressing health care issues across the state
and the nation – the impending shortage of
primary care physicians and the diabetes
epidemic...
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Governor Announces $26.8 Million for
Regional Partners to Help Implement Ohio's
Health Information Technology Strategy
These resources are a portion of Ohio’s
total $43 million ARRA award for the Ohio
Health Information Partnership (OHIP), the
non-profit entity designated by Strickland
to lead the implementation of health
information technology in Ohio.
OHIP will work with the selected regional
partners to help more than 6,000 primary
care providers install electronic health
record (EHR) systems and connect to a
statewide, secure health information
exchange...
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