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Funding Opportunities: Technology
Below is a list of funding opportunities related to providing
medical homes for children with special needs.
Highmark eHealth Collaborative
Announces First Initiative for Pennsylvania Physicians
Deadline: Open
Pennsylvania health insurer Highmark, Inc. (www.highmark.com/)
has announced a major grant to the Pittsburgh Foundation
(www.pittsburghfoundation.org/)
to establish the Highmark eHealth Collaborative, which will
work to encourage the adoption of information technology
in patient care in order to improve patient safety and quality
while increasing cost efficiency.
The first major project of the collaborative is to provide
funding to physicians to help reduce the initial cost of
acquiring ePrescribing/eHealth Record technology for their
practices. Funding will be used to help physicians acquire
and use electronic technology systems such as a personal
computer, PDA, electronic tablet, or digital pen to generate
and transmit electronically prescriptions to pharmacies.
In order to qualify for funding, an applicant must be a
Pennsylvania-licensed physician who prescribes medicines
and whose main practice locations are in western or central
Pennsylvania. The collaborative will pay up to 75 percent
of the cost for a physician's office to acquire, install,
and implement the electronic technology system, up to a
maximum of $7,000 per physician, with the physician's practice
to pay the remaining balance. Depending on the amount of
funding received by each physician, it is expected that
funding will be available for 4,000 to 6,000 physicians.
For more information about the collaborative, a list of
eligible counties, and application guidelines and procedures,
see the program's Web site.
http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10000223/highmarkehealth
Last Updated August 7, 2008
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