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Right now, eligible health care providers in Oregon can apply for incentives to help implement and meaningfully use electronic health records (EHR) in their clinics through the Medicaid EHR Incentives Program. Since the program started in late September, over $5.5 million in federal incentive payments have been paid to Oregon Medicaid hospitals and eligible professionals.
By Courtney Freitag, OHN Marketing Coordinator
With more than 2,000 uninsured children in Josephine County, Umpqua Community Health Center and its satellite school-based facilities serve as a critical piece of the health care puzzle in Douglas County. With a reliable, high-speed broadband connection, students that see Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Erin Cudney are assured quality access to care.
Blue Mountain Hospital works with Cascade Medical Imaging to enhance care
By Courtney Freitag, OHN Marketing Coordinator
Each issue, we feature an OHN participant and how their OHN connection is helping make a difference in the communities they serve.
Developing the state’s Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) model of care has a key goal: reducing barriers that stand between patients and good health. Blue Mountain Hospital in John Day is working toward this goal by using its Oregon Health Network connection to better serve its patients and coordinating care with Cascade Medical Imaging in Bend. CMI is the first non-subsidized clinic to join OHN as the FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program comes to an end and OHN begins phase 2 by bringing all those in the medical community onto its statewide network.
Contributed by Brian Ahier, Health IT Evangelist, Mid-Columbia Medical Center, and Kim Lamb, OHN Executive Director
Health information exchange is a key enabler of improving our health care system. The future of health care will depend on the effective incorporation of digital technologies to help streamline the practice of medicine and to lower costs. Regardless of whether we represent a public agency, for-profit or nonprofit health care facility or provider, the pressure to do more and better with less is a common denominator. The new nationwide health care model that is developing will force us all to think about how our facility, community and state will connect to the health care delivery system via information technology. Reliable, high-speed, high-quality connectivity is the crucial, but often overlooked, component for success. This is why OHN and the other national FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Programs are working to expand existing or build new necessary broadband infrastructure across the country to support the health IT requirements of the next generation health care delivery system.
