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Committee recommends extension for rural health connectivity funding to onboard remaining providers
Summary
The Joint Technology Committee recommended a three-year extension to capital funding for the state’s rural connectivity work to finish onboarding 40 remaining providers and to continue pulling down federal matching funds.
The Joint Technology Committee unanimously recommended extending capital funding for the state’s rural health connectivity initiative so the program can onboard the remaining independent providers and continue drawing federal match.
Stephanie Pugliese, director of the Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI), and Kim Bimstueffer, executive director of the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), described the program’s work to connect rural providers to the state health information exchange and a complementary community analytics platform (CAP). They said 127 rural organizations and locations are connected, including all identified…
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