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Community Grants

In 2008, as part of the Washington Health Information Collaborative, the Washington State Health Care Authority has awarded additional grants of about $50,000 each to spur community-wide efforts to engage providers and patients in improved health care connectivity. News release about all WHIC grants in 2008.

As of October 2008, the five Community Grant recipients are:

1. Inland Northwest Health Services
2. The South Sound Health Communication Network
3. Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
4. Medical Information Network - North Sound (Anacortes)
5. The NATIVE Project (Spokane)

The grants are intended to be used for efforts such as:

1. Engaging providers on practice redesign around health information technology (IT) to improve clinical practice; 

2. Using community champions to promote health IT adoption and practice redesign around health IT use;

3. Providing consulting services to providers and critical access hospitals for practice redesign around appropriate health IT utilization to improve patient care outcomes; and

4. Developing strategies to align reimbursement methodologies to encourage health IT adoption and practice redesign.

For 2008, the following materials to apply for a Community Grant in health IT were used:

2008 WHIC Community Grant Application (posted June 2, 2008)

2008 Announcement of Funding Opportunities (posted June 2, 2008)

Budget Template -- use of this template is optional (posted April 21, 2008)

Questions? Please contact us by email.