At-risk, rural hospitals in Ohio, Minnesota and North Dakota will get $2.3 million-worth of technical help to switch from paper-based medical records to electronic ones. The 1,655 "critical access hospitals" in 41 states will get a total of $20 million in new technical help from the Health Information Technology Economic and Clinical Health Act, better known as HITECH.
Nonprofit health information exchange HealthBridge has received $13.8 million in federal funding to help area health providers better utilize information technology.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Case Western Reserve University faculty from the Center for Global Child Health and pediatricians at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital are helping to lead the pediatric disaster response to the Haiti earthquake.
Nonprofit health information exchange HealthBridge has received a $1.4 million contract from the Social Security Administration to provide electronic medical records to the government agency. In addition, Dayton's Center for Healthy Communities received a $999,000 grant as part of the same project.