Approximately $10 million in state funding has been allocated to the Tennessee Physician Connectivity Grant program to promote connectivity and ePrescribing among primary care and pediatric physicians. These grants allow clinicians on the front lines to receive up to $6,000 per treatment site in reimbursement for expenses related to connectivity on the Tennessee eHealth Exchange Zone, and up to $3,500 reimbursement per eligible MD for expenses related to PCs, peripherals, software and services related to the expanded use of health information technology.
Funding Available:
- Up to $6,000 per approved treatment site for connectivity on the Tennessee eHealth Exchange Zone
- Up to $3,500 per eligible MD for PCs, peripherals, software and services related to EMR’s, ePrescribing and use of health information technology at the point of care
Opportunity:
- To use seed funding from the state to take the next step in the utilization of health information to help your patients
- To get secure, high-speed broadband connectivity in any Tennessee county at state-negotiated rates on an existing, private network, with built-in authentication for health care providers
- To get a health information portal that will connect you with health information applications from the Tennessee Department of Health and many other resources
- To integrate your health information portal to access multiple data sources of patient information with a single sign-on
Requirements
- Agree to ePrescribe (computer system to computer system) for two years
- Use grant to purchase or expand an EMR; the EMR must be certified for interoperability on the CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) 2007 list
- Used grant to purchase an ePrescribing application, the application must be certified by either SureScripts or RxHub
- Use new connectivity to look up TennCare patients on existing clinical health records available through Shared Health, particularly for EPSDT documentation
Eligibility
- Primary care and Pediatric MDs licensed and practicing in Tennessee
- Priority given for rural practices or practices that have a high TennCare patient base
Apply
Four large administrative grants have been made to four organizations to make grants to physician practices in their respective constituencies. (See Table) The State is also making some grants directly to practices.
You will need the following information to fill out this application:
- number of physicians at facility;
- physician license numbers;
- facility address and county; and
- the facility’s federal employer identification number (FEIN).
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Administrative Grantee
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Community
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Contact Information
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IVhin
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Primary care, for-profit practices in Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union counties
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QSource
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Primary care practices statewide
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Jennifer McAnally
901-273-2635
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CHN
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Non-profit treatment sites statewide
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Keith Williams
866-519-2464
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Cumberland Pediatric Foundation
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Pediatric practices statewide
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Dr. James Fuzy
615-936-6052
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