Making the Most of the Money Before it Runs Out: State HIE Sustainability without Federal Funds
January 6th, 2012
Nearly two years ago, the ONC established the State Health Information (State HIE) Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program, a federal-state collaboration which funds states’ efforts to rapidly build capacity for exchanging health information across the healthcare system both within and across states. To receive the grant money, states were required to provide state strategic and operational plans and are required to submit a financial sustainability plan to the ONC by 2012. In total, 56 states, eligible territories and qualified State Designated Entities (SDE) received awards, the total funding for which is approximately $546 million. Read the rest of this entry »