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The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to 25 behavioral health providers to advance their use of health information technology, or Health IT, designed to improve patient care, reduce healthcare costs and ensure appropriate privacy and security protection of behavioral health patient data.

The awards were made as part of MeHI’s eQuality Incentive Program, an initiative that provides grants for critical technology enhancements to both behavioral health and long-term/post-acute care organizations. The behavioral health grantees, selected in two funding rounds, manage a total of 179 facilities in 64 cities and towns across Massachusetts.

In April 2015, MeHI made the first round of awards, granting $973,500 to 18 providers statewide. In the second round, completed in late October, seven additional providers received $363,000 in awards. These organizations manage 53 facilities in 28 cities and towns across the Commonwealth: Amesbury Psychological Center Inc., The Bridge of Central Massachusetts, Casa Esperanza Inc., Family Continuity Program Inc., Fellowship Health Resources Inc. and Wediko Children's Services and Youth Opportunities Upheld Inc.

The behavioral health provider organizations selected in each round will receive payments upon reaching select milestones that demonstrate increasingly advanced use of health IT systems, totaling up to $1.32 million to the 25 providers. The amount each grantee organization receives will vary depending on the size of the organization and the attainment of key milestones, with maximum awards for each grantee ranging from $33,000 to $82,500.

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Quelle/Source: The Metro West Daily News, 02.01.2016

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