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| − | For Immediate Release
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| − | February 12, 2010
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| − | Contact: Deb Innis
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| − | dinnis@ifmc.org
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| − | 515-440-8224
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| − | '''IFMC Named Iowa’s HIT Regional Extension Center'''
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| − | West Des Moines, Iowa – IFMC was recently designated as Iowa’s Health Information Technology
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| − | Regional Extension Center. As a HIT Regional Center IFMC will assist providers in adopting, implementing
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| − | and achieving meaningful use with their electronic health records system.
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| − | Registration is currently open to eligible Iowa providers interested in participating in this opportunity, full
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| − | operation begins March 31. The Regional Center will primarily provide assistance to priority primary care
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| − | providers. Priority primary care providers are defined as physicians and health care professionals with
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| − | prescriptive privileges (physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives) in:
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| − | * Individual and small group primary care practices (ten or fewer professionals with prescriptive
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| − | privileges);
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| − | * Public and Critical Access Hospitals;
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| − | * Community health centers and rural health clinics; and
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| − | * Other settings that predominantly serve uninsured, underinsured, and medically underserved
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| − | populations.
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| − | Through the Regional Center, IFMC and our partner INConcertCare, Inc., will provide assistance to 1,200
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| − | priority providers (33 percent of Iowa’s primary care practitioners) during the first two years of the
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| − | program. This includes assistance in vendor selection, group purchasing, implementation, project
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| − | management, practice workflow redesign, interoperability, health information exchange, privacy and
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| − | security best practices. The Regional Center will also provide education and outreach, support for local
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| − | workforce development, and assessment of progress toward meaningful use. “We look forward to
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| − | assisting Iowa providers in improving patient care through the use of information technology,” says Kim
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| − | Downs, Senior Director at IFMC.
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| − | Recruitment and registration is currently underway. If you are interested in receiving services or learning
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| − | more visit [www.ifmc.org] or contact Susan Harr at sharr@ifmc.org or 515-440-8215.
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| − | ###
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| − | IFMC Links:
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| − | '''FAQ'''
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| − | [http://www.ifmc.org/news/resources/HITREC_Q&A.pdf] | + | |
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| − | '''Program Snapshot'''
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| − | [http://www.ifmc.org/news/resources/HITREC%20Program%20Snapshot.pdf] | + | |
