U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that more than $267 million has been awarded to 28 additional non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers (RECs). This investment, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will help grow the emerging health information technology (health IT) industry which is expected to support tens of thousands of jobs ranging from nurses and pharmacy techs to IT technicians and trainers.
Grantees in the second series of awards (announced April 6, 2010)
| REC Awardees |
Federal Share
|
| Alaska eHealth Network, Anchorage, AK |
$3,632,357
|
| University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL |
$7,519,969
|
| Arizona Health-e Connection, Phoenix, AZ |
$10,791,644
|
| Local Initiative Health Authority for Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA |
$15,625,910
|
| eHealthConnecticut, Inc., Rocky Hill, CT |
$5,749,309
|
| National Indian Health Board, Washington, DC |
$15,625,910
|
| Quality Insights of Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, DE |
$5,859,716
|
| University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL |
$7,669,328
|
| Community Health Centers Alliance, Inc, St. Petersburg, FL |
$10,982,866
|
| University of South Florida, Tampa, FL |
$5,884,132
|
| Hawaii Health Information Exchange, Honolulu, HI |
$5,859,716
|
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY |
$6,005,467
|
| Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Baton Rouge, LA |
$6,207,802
|
| HealthInfoNet, Manchester, ME |
$4,777,483
|
| Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients, Baltimore, MD |
$5,535,423
|
| eQHealth Solutions, Inc , Baton Rouge, LA |
$4,289,613
|
| The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO |
$6,836,335
|
| Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation, Helena, MT |
$5,020,754
|
| New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ |
$23,048,351
|
| Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, Inc. (Eastern), King of Prussia, PA |
$28,810,271
|
| Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, Inc. (Western), King of Prussia, PA |
$15,625,910
|
| Ponce School of Medicine, PR |
$19,280,795
|
| South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia, SC |
$5,581,407
|
| Dakota State University, Madison, SD |
$5,687,168
|
| The TAMUS Health Science Center Research Foundation. College Station, TX |
$5,279,970
|
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX |
$15,274,327
|
| Dallas- Fort Worth Hospital Council Education and Research Foundation, Irving, TX |
$8,488,513
|
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Lubbock, TX |
$6,666,296
|
| Total |
$267, 616, 742
|
Grantees in the first series of awards (announced February 12, 2010)
| RECs Awardee |
Federal Share
|
| Arkansas Foundation For Medical Care |
$7,400,000
|
| Northern California Regional Extension Center |
$17,286,081
|
| Southern California Regional Extension Center |
$13,961,339
|
| Colorado RHIO |
$12,475,000
|
| District of Columbia Primary Care Association |
$5,488,437
|
| Health Choice Network, Inc., Florida |
$8,500,000
|
| Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc., Georgia |
$19,521,542
|
| Northern Illinois University |
$7,546,000
|
| Northwestern University |
$7,649,533
|
| Iowa IFMC |
$5,508,019
|
| Purdue University |
$12,000,000
|
| Kansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc. |
$7,000,000
|
| Massachusetts Technology Park Cooperation |
$13,433,107
|
| Altarum Institute, Michigan |
$19,619,990
|
| Key Health Alliance (Stratis Health), Minnesota – North Dakota |
$19,000,000
|
| CIMRO of Nebraska |
$6,647,371
|
| LCF Research, New Mexico |
$6,175,000
|
| New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) |
$26,534,999
|
| Fund for Public Health New York |
$21,754,010
|
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
$13,569,169
|
| Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge (Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana) |
$9,738,000
|
| Ohio Health Information Partnership |
$28,500,000
|
| Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, Inc. |
$5,331,685
|
| OCHIN Inc. (Primary), Oregon |
$13,201,499
|
| Rhode Island Quality Institute |
$6,000,000
|
| Qsource (Tennessee) |
$7,256,155
|
| HealthInsight, Utah-Nevada |
$6,917,783
|
| Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. |
$6,762,080
|
| VHQC and the Center for Innovative Technology, for The Virginia
Consortium |
$12,425,000
|
| Qualis Health, Washington – Idaho |
$12,846,482
|
| West Virginia Health Improvement Institute Inc. |
$6,000,000
|
| MetaStar, Inc, Wisconsin |
$9,125,000
|
| Total |
$375,173,281
|
via healthit.hhs.gov
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