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Tennessee Awarded Funds to Support HIT, Training02/17/2010 TENNESSEE AWARDED FUNDS TO SUPPORT HIT, TRAINING
Tennessee will receive $11.7 million in Recovery Act awards to help health care providers increase the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health information technology in the state. Tennessee’s award is part of $1 billion in total grants Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today and made available through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to make health information technologies available to hospitals and physicians.
As part of today’s announcement, QSource, the state’s Medicare quality improvement organization with offices in Memphis and Nashville, will receive $7.3 million to establish a regional extension center (REC) to aid health professionals as they work to implement and use health information technology. QSource will locate the REC in its Nashville office.
Additionally, Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc., a community-based behavioral health care provider, will receive $5 million in U.S. Department of Labor grant awards that will be used to train people in the job skills needed to access careers in health care.
This is the second health information technology grant awarded to the state of Tennessee to advance the exchange of electronic health information.
In early January, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tennessee will receive $2.7 million in federal matching funds for state planning activities to implement the Recovery Act’s Medicare and Medicaid incentive
program.
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