Community Health Centers news and information

Six regional networks of community health centers are slated to receive a total of $3 million in federal funding toward the adoption of or improvement to their electronic health-record systems.
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Three leading public health organizations have announced plans to partner in a project aimed at helping the nation's healthcare providers prepare for the 2014 expansion of Medicaid coverage.
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While there have been successes and failures in the deployment of open-source health information technology by federally supported safety net healthcare organizations, the federal government could and should do more to ensure more frequent successes, according to an HHS-funded report.
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More than 1,000 of the nation's federally qualified community health centers have received a total of $150 million in grants to enroll uninsured Americans in coverage under the health reform law, HHS announced Wednesday.
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Four of Iowa's largest health systems have joined with the state's new consumer-owned health insurance cooperative plan to offer plans this fall on the new state insurance exchanges.
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a new national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better serve patients with chronic conditions in underserved areas.
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Just ahead of Mother's Day, President Barack Obama on Friday spoke from the White House about the ways his signature healthcare law will help millions of American women and their families.
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It takes some pluck to drive in West Virginia, probably to live there, too, amid the many mountains, valleys, hills and “hollers.” As one plucky experiment in open-source health information technology ends in the Mountain State, another continues to thrive.
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A new Senate funding bill omits resources the Obama administration sought to launch healthcare reform.
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HHS is bracing itself for the automatic federal budget cuts set to take effect next week, but it does not have a projection of how many department employees will be affected by the spending reductions.
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