Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia are the latest to receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The recipients will use the funds for planning activities that include an analysis of health IT activities in the region. They will gather information on issues such as existing barriers to use of EHRs, provider eligibility for EHR inventive payments and the creation of a state Medicaid health IT plan, all of which will help define the vision for long-term health IT use.
CMS has thus far allocated funding to 39 other states and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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