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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2964 |
| Rural Community Health Center Electronic Record Initiative |
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| Requester: |
Diane Gaddis |
Organization: |
Commuity Health Centers Alliance |
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| Project Title: |
Rural Community Health Center Electronic Record Initiative |
Date Submitted |
1/13/2006 11:44:15 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Fasano |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Impacts and benefits healthh care services to rural and underserved populations throughout the state of Florida and related to Governor Bush's priority of improved healthcare. Specifically, this request is in alignment with the following: (1) AHCA's Long Range Program Plan objective on increasing physician use of electronic health records and adherence to evidence based medicine Medicaid Reform objective (2) AHCA's Long Range Program Plan objective to increase by 50% annually the number of patient records accessed by practitioners through the Florida Health Information Network and (3) Governor Bush's efforts related to Minority Health Initiatives. |
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| Recipient: |
Community Health Centers Alliance |
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Contact: |
Diane Gaddis |
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8901 - 94th Avenue North, Suite 201 |
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Contact Phone: |
(727) 570-2255 |
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St. Petersburg 33702 |
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Contact email: |
diane@chcalliance.org |
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| Counties: |
{Statewide} |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| The deployment and implementation of an integrated, centrally-managed, Electronic Health Records solution to community health centers throughout the State of Florida. Services include the following: (1) The provision of a technical infrastructure hosted out of a hurricane 5 rated facility with redundant servers to mitigate risks and build assurances for disaster recovery and business continuity; (2) training and project management services to ensure the successful provider adoption of an electronic health record system; (3) provider collaboration services in order to ingrain best practices and evidenced based medicine protocols into the electronic health record system; and (4) data collection, analysis, reporting services including technical services related to data exchange initiatives with community-based networks. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| The adop[tion of electronic health records across the statewide network of over 200 providers. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$500,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$2,500,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Private |
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Cash Amount |
$1,000,000 |
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In-kind Amount |
$1,000,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
AHCA's Long Range Program Plan and Governor Bush's priorities |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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No |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
