Who All Bagged The Latest $1 Billion In Hit Stimulus Funds?
If you want to know who's getting those ARRA dollars, here's the list.
We are going to need a lot more health information technology (HIT) workers if the feds are going to get providers anywhere near their ambitious HIT implementation goals. That's the reason the Department of Health & Human Services and Department of Labor are shelling out big bucks to train the next wave of ‘meaningful users'.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced recently that the government has extended about $1 in ARRA grants to further develop HIT, skills-building and education in the healthcare sector.
More than 100,000 hospitals and primary care physicians will stand to gain from the Recovery Act grant, which will make health information technology widely available by 2014. The grant will also give a boost to the healthcare workforce, including nursing, pharmacy, technology, and IT through training and skills building.
According to DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, "These grant awards, the first of their kind, will help develop our electronic infrastructure and give doctors and other health care providers the support they need as they take up this powerful technology.
In the meantime, the DOL is giving away more than $225 million grants to institutions to train 15,000 workers for careers in the healthcare, IT and other high-growth industries. The next couple of years will witness about 10,000 job openings for nurses, pharmaceutical workers and IT technicians. The grant recipients will establish 55 separate training programs in 30 states with the same motive. Community colleges and local education providers will lead the trainings, while DOL's One-Stop-Career Centers will watch over the management of job services.
The California Health and Human Services Agency ranks as the top Health Information Exchange (HIE) awardee, walking away with $38.8 million in grants. In the meantime, Ohio Health Information Partnership bags the biggest pie of the Regional Extension Center (REC) awards with $28.5 million.
Other organizations which are likely to benefit from the funds include New York eHealth Collaborative Inc (HIE, $22.4m); Ohio Health Information Partnership LLC (HIE, $14.9m); New York eHealth Collaborative (REC, $26.5m); and Fund for Public Health New York (REC, $21.8m).
We are going to need a lot more health information technology (HIT) workers if the feds are going to get providers anywhere near their ambitious HIT implementation goals. That's the reason the Department of Health & Human Services and Department of Labor are shelling out big bucks to train the next wave of ‘meaningful users'.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced recently that the government has extended about $1 in ARRA grants to further develop HIT, skills-building and education in the healthcare sector.
More than 100,000 hospitals and primary care physicians will stand to gain from the Recovery Act grant, which will make health information technology widely available by 2014. The grant will also give a boost to the healthcare workforce, including nursing, pharmacy, technology, and IT through training and skills building.
According to DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, "These grant awards, the first of their kind, will help develop our electronic infrastructure and give doctors and other health care providers the support they need as they take up this powerful technology.
In the meantime, the DOL is giving away more than $225 million grants to institutions to train 15,000 workers for careers in the healthcare, IT and other high-growth industries. The next couple of years will witness about 10,000 job openings for nurses, pharmaceutical workers and IT technicians. The grant recipients will establish 55 separate training programs in 30 states with the same motive. Community colleges and local education providers will lead the trainings, while DOL's One-Stop-Career Centers will watch over the management of job services.
The California Health and Human Services Agency ranks as the top Health Information Exchange (HIE) awardee, walking away with $38.8 million in grants. In the meantime, Ohio Health Information Partnership bags the biggest pie of the Regional Extension Center (REC) awards with $28.5 million.
Other organizations which are likely to benefit from the funds include New York eHealth Collaborative Inc (HIE, $22.4m); Ohio Health Information Partnership LLC (HIE, $14.9m); New York eHealth Collaborative (REC, $26.5m); and Fund for Public Health New York (REC, $21.8m).