Hospitals across the U.S. are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding, community grants and donations to purchase, create, upgrade and install better IT equipment and IT hubs.
Here are four hospitals and health systems that have received outside funding to further develop their technology stack:
- McLeansboro, Ill.-based Hamilton Memorial Hospital has received an $895,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help fund its Epic EHR system.
- Health plan Univera Healthcare awarded a grant to Jamestown, N.Y.-based UPMC Chautauqua to expand its behavioral telehealth services.
- Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and Melax Tech, a company specializing in natural language processing, have received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a clinical decision-support tool for early detection of cognitive decline. The two-year collaboration will develop algorithms to identify patients with early cognitive decline via EHRs.
- Legacy Community Health, a Houston-based network of 41 clinics, received $1 million in federal funds to upgrade its Epic EHR system.