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Committee advances retroactive $4.5M Kaiser grant to DPH for electronic health records amid retroactivity questions
Summary
The committee advanced a retroactive $4.5 million Kaiser Permanente grant acceptance for San Francisco Department of Public Health to support Waves 2–3 of an enterprise electronic health record project; supervisors pressed DPH on retroactivity, reimbursement of prior expenditures and a pattern of retroactive acceptances.
San Francisco’s Department of Public Health (DPH) asked the Budget & Finance Committee on March 3 to retroactively accept a $4.5 million grant from Kaiser Permanente, through the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, to fund further phases of the city’s enterprise electronic health record (EHR) implementation.
DPH staff said Wave 1 of the EHR went live in August 2019 and that DPH was invited to apply for…
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