Training Offered in Funding Healthcare IT Projects

(PRLEAP.COM) TULSA, OKLAHOMA – A series of web-based seminars will provide training on Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) startup funding and ongoing operating finances. RHIOs are data exchanges that make it possible for a patient’s medical records to be available to her many healthcare providers in different locations – the doctors, specialists, hospitals, labs and pharmacies. Currently, these exchanges cover only a small number municipalities, and most have not reached full operation. Today’s healthcare community generally does not have adequate access to their patient’s records, and frequent medical errors occur as a result.

Getting RHIOs funded and in full operation is a national priority, and one that has been aggressively articulated by Congress and the President. Ten years have passed with only limited progress. The problem is funding.

The RHIO finance webinar series, conducted by Healthcare IT Transition Group in June, July and August of 2007, will attack the problem from three different directions.

The first event – a 90-minute webinar titled “RHIO Funding Progress: Findings of the 2007 RHIO Finance Survey,” will describe the emerging RHIO business model, its market, its current funding sources and revenue streams, and funding opportunities that are missed by most RHIOs. Participants can choose from two dates, June 6 or 7, 2007, to attend the webinar.

The second title in the series, “The Grant Search for Health IT: Resources and Techniques,” will describe the particular difficulties involved in finding funding for major healthcare information technology projects, including RHIOs. Specific grant sources will be addressed, and participants will receive a resource package with contact information for funding sources, application deadlines and other information. Date choices are July 10 or 12, 2007

The final title, “Building the Case for RHIO: Tools for Partner Consensus and Funding,” will focus on the capital development model used successfully by the nonprofit sector for many years – in this case to raise money for RHIO startup and operations. The process involves three interlocking components: the feasibility study, which reaches out to community leaders and funders; the convening stage, which recruits from those leaders a kind of steering committee; and the Case for Support, a document whose development involves all the partners and which provides the key to unlocking the financial resources the RHIO will need. Date choices are August 7 or 9, 2007.

Information is available at http://hittransition.com/flashpoint/rhioseries .

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