The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced that funding will be available to HIT Regional Extension Centers (REC) to provide Critical Access Hospitals with technical assistance to adopt and achieve meaningful use of electronic health records. This is exciting news given that originally only outpatient clinics were supported through REC funding. In Colorado, CRHC is one of the REC partners that will be providing HIT support to hospitals and clinics through THE Consortium. We will keep you informed as we learn more about the details of the REC services that will be available to your facility.

For more information on the RECs, click here.