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Southern California Health Centers Receive $1.5 Million HHS Grant to Improve Health IT Adoption

Healthcare Informatics: Health Centers Partners of Southern California, a consortium of community health centers in San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties, received a $1.5 million federal grant to improve patient care through the use of technology.

The organization will use the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant to improve the adoption of health information technology at its health centers. And, the renewal of funding enables Health Center Partners to continue its work of the past three years to strengthen member community health centers through health IT implementation, as well as meaningful use, data quality and reporting, health information exchange, population health management and quality improvement, according to an announcement from Health Center Partners.

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