The Indiana Health IT Extension Center (I-HITEC) has picked three software vendors to work with the regional training center in helping primary care providers in the state adopt electronic health records.
I-HITEC is one of 60 regional health IT extension centers across the country funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to help providers get up to speed in using EHRs.
The center is giving a hand to Indiana small physician practices, community health centers, federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics in achieving meaningful use of health IT.
I-HITEC chose as preferred vendors athenahealth Inc. of Boston; iSALUS Healthcare of Indianapolis; and MDLand of New York, all of which provide Web-based solutions for electronic health records and practice management.
The vendors have agreed to provide preferred pricing and terms, and they are working toward a definitive agreement with the extension center, said Monica Arrowsmith, I-HITEC director.
The extension center chose the three from more than 200 vendors based on their ability to meet the needs of small and/or rural healthcare providers.
"athenahealth, iSALUS Healthcare and MDLand will offer the healthcare providers we work with reliable and affordable software," she said in an announcement July 30.
I-HITEC, which began operations in April, is administered by Purdue's Healthcare Technical Assistance Program (TAP), which received a $12 million grant award under the HITECH Act to create the extension center.
