Oklahoma State Department of Health details ARPA EHR rollout, seeks transfers for program moves and hopes Title X funding will return

Oklahoma State Department of Health Commissioner Keith Reed told the Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Health that the agency is using ARPA funding to modernize clinical records and to pass through some federal ARPA awards, while urging lawmakers to help restore long-standing federal family-planning (Title X) grant funding.

Electronic health record and ARPA projects: Reed said the department is piloting an electronic health record (EHR) to replace largely paper-based clinical systems in more than 80 county and public health clinics. He said the EHR rollout is ARPA-funded and scheduled to phase into pilot sites in the months ahead with broader statewide deployment over roughly a year; the upgrades are intended to improve clinical documentation and revenue capture for services…