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Health Commission signs off on budget initiatives including $20M annual IT investment, seeks ROI and staffing details
Summary
The Commission approved DPH budget initiatives and received an IT briefing that requested $20 million in ongoing operational funding for an EHR program and identified a one-time implementation need (estimated ~$123M); commissioners asked for FTE projections, adoption/training plans and a business-case showing revenue and cost impacts.
The San Francisco Health Commission on Wednesday reviewed and approved a set of budget initiatives from the Department of Public Health that together leave roughly $19.7 million available to program toward the department—s unified electronic health record (EHR) initiative.
Greg Wagner, the department—s chief financial officer, presented the proposed FY2015-16 budget of approximately $1.98 billion, with $1.3 billion in projected revenues and the balance in general-fund support (about $625 million). Wagner described revenue-neutral and emerging-need…
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