The Georgia Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (GA-HITREC) is a federally funded program, at the National Center for Primary Care, designed to assist Georgia’s providers with the selection, successful implementation, and meaningful use of certified EHR systems to improve clinical outcomes and quality of care provided to their patients.

The National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta was awarded an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant to oversee the HIT Regional Extension Center. The GA-HITREC serves as one of 60 centers nationally to support providers and CAH and rural hospitals in becoming meaningful users of EHR by offering education, outreach, and technical assistance services. HomeTown Health is the partner providing education and outreach services to Critical Access and Rural hospitals in Georgia.

Morehouse School of Medicine GA-HITREC’s mission is to use a community-oriented approach to assist Georgia’s providers with the selection, successful implementation, and meaningful use of certified EHR systems to improve clinical outcomes and quality of care provided to their patients. Our vision is to work collaboratively with valued partners to assure the adoption of certified EHR technology to improve the quality of health for the community while eliminating the disparate gap of healthcare throughout Georgia.

GA-HITREC Goals and Service Objectives:

• To use a community-oriented approach to provide outreach and education to facilitate the adoption and meaningful use of EHR.
• To work collaboratively with statewide partners across the 18 public health districts of Georgia to develop and implement programs to meet MSM GA-HITREC objectives.
• To select HIT products that meet provider’s needs and helps them to meet patient-centered medical home standards.
• To provide equitable group purchasing agreements for Georgia’s priority primary care.
• To build up competent technical teams to obtain meaningful use of EHR throughout the state and grow Georgia’s HIT workforce.
• To work collaboratively with State HIE (GA DCH) to meet all meaningful use criteria.
• To provide excellent quality service to our customers in order to build a national reputation as a reliable HIT resource for providers.
• Assistance with health information exchange and connectivity to other healthcare organization

HomeTown Health, LLC is an organization of rural and small hospitals, located throughout the state of Georgia, who collectively pursue ways to help these hospitals survive in this environment of tremendous change and budget cuts from the state and federal level. What began as a handful of community hospitals eleven years ago, has now grown into an organization of 56 hospital members and over 55 business partners.

Visit http://www.hometownhealthonline.com for more information.

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