Ponce School of Medicine is awarded $19 million as Regional Extension Center for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands
Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Ponce School of Medicine will receive $19,280,796 dollars as part of the Regional Extension Center (REC) grant for the areas of Puerto Rico and the US. Virgin Islands which is part of an innitiative to establish Health Information Technology Centers across the United States.
RECs will enable health care practitioners to reach out to a local resource for technical assistance, guidance, and information on best practices. RECs are designed to address unique community requirements and to support and accelerate provider efforts to become meaningful users of electronic health records.
“Health care in our country is community-based. Today’s awards represent our ongoing commitment to make sure that health providers have the necessary support within their communities to maximize the use of health IT to improve the care they provide to their patients,” said Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
For a direct link from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services click below
http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/
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Congratulations on receiving the much needed funding to help support the community! It’s personally very exciting for me to see this evolution because of all my visits while accompanying the elders in my family to small medical practices. I know the future will now be more promising with respect to empowering physicians with the tools and guidance the REC’s will provide.
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