REC Services for Hospitals Now Available – Sign Up Today!

The Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) is now available to provide your hospital with no-cost Health Information Technology consultation as one of the Colorado Regional Extension Center (CO-REC) providers! Our REC services will help you assess, implement and adopt certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) and are intended to help you achieve meaningful use, which will allow your facility to draw down Medicaid and/or Medicare federal incentive payments!

Whether you already have an electronic system, or are starting from a paper-based system, we are here to help you create a roadmap to ensure you collect your incentive payment.

As a result of the federal funding for CO-REC partner, we are able to provide your hospital with no-cost consultation services through CRHC’s Technology for Healthcare Excellence Consortium. The services include:

• General Education and Outreach delivered through in-person and web-based tools on the effective strategies and practices necessary to select, implement and meaningfully use certified EHR technology including Health Information Exchange (HIE)
• EHR Vendor Selection and Group Pricing
• EHR Implementation and Project Management Services
• Inpatient and related Workflow Redesign
• Privacy and Security Best Practices including support for Hospital in implementing best practices with respect to the privacy and security of personal health information
• Progress towards Meaningful Use

These CO-REC services are only available through federal subsidy for two years, so act now to begin taking advantage of this valuable resource that can save you time, money and the headaches usually associated with adopting technology!

To begin working with us as your REC partner, please fill out the Hospital letter of agreement and fax a signed copy AND send us the original by November 12, 2010, to attn: Danette Swanson (303) 851-7496, at 3033 S Parker Road, Suite 606, Aurora, CO 80014.

**NOTE: REC services are available for both clinics and hospitals, so be sure you have submitted both a Provider Letter of Agreement and a Hospital Letter of Agreement so we can work with your facilities simultaneously to ensure effective integration of technology.

Feel free to email me with any questions you may have at cf@coruralhealth.org! We look forward to working with you.