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      Health IT: How to Spend $240M

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      Stacy Lawrence
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      October 10, 2006
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        Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger committed $240 million to health care IT in California, and a plan is supposed to be in place before the end of 2006.

        At the start of the coming fray, a major philanthropic group has just weighed in on what Californias health IT priorities should be.

        Now that Schwarzenegger has committed $240 million to health IT, he needs to figure out how to spend it.

        In mid-October, a committee is convening to start doing just that at the eHealth Action Forum. And participants in the event are already starting to weigh in with their recommendations.

        Schwarzenegger has asserted that by mid-December a plan will be in place based on the feedback and information received at the eHealth Action Forum.

        In July, the governor signed an executive order designating $200 million in investment funds to be distributed by state health, transportation and housing agencies.

        An additional $40 million in grant funding is to go to benefit rural health care IT needs. More “public/private financing alternatives” are also slated to be secured.

        /zimages/6/28571.gifClick here to read more about Californias online organ donor registry.

        The decade-old California HealthCare Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to helping to improve health care delivery and economics, already released a report in advance of the eHealth Action Forum detailing the initiatives it is hoping will be put in place in the state.

        At the top of its agenda are ensuring secure access to health information, enhancing rural health capabilities, training the health care workforce, providing training for health care workers, developing a statewide emergency health IT infrastructure, implementing health IT standards, and creating sustainable public and private funding.

        “As a regulator and the largest purchaser of health care, California can have enormous influence on the successful adoption and effective use of health IT to improve the quality and delivery of care,” said Sam Karp, vice president of programs for California HealthCare Foundation.

        /zimages/6/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, views and analysis of technologys impact on health care.

        Stacy Lawrence
        Stacy Lawrence is co-editor of CIOInsight.com's Health Care Center. Lawrence has covered IT and the life sciences for various publications, including Business 2.0, Red Herring, The Industry Standard and Nature Biotechnology. Before becoming a journalist, Lawrence attended New York University and continued on in the sociology doctoral program at UC Berkeley.

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