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Health Information Technology Collaboration in Community Health Centers: The Community Partners HealthNet, Inc.

Health Information Technology Collaboration in Community Health Centers: The Community Partners HealthNet, Inc.

Elizabeth J. Forrestal, Leigh W. Cellucci, Xiaoming Zeng, Michael H. Kennedy, Doug Smith
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781466626713|ISBN10: 1466626712|EISBN13: 9781466627024
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2671-3.ch011
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Forrestal, Elizabeth J., et al. "Health Information Technology Collaboration in Community Health Centers: The Community Partners HealthNet, Inc." Cases on Healthcare Information Technology for Patient Care Management, edited by Surendra Sarnikar, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 171-196. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2671-3.ch011

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Forrestal, E. J., Cellucci, L. W., Zeng, X., Kennedy, M. H., & Smith, D. (2013). Health Information Technology Collaboration in Community Health Centers: The Community Partners HealthNet, Inc. In S. Sarnikar, D. Bennett, & M. Gaynor (Eds.), Cases on Healthcare Information Technology for Patient Care Management (pp. 171-196). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2671-3.ch011

Chicago

Forrestal, Elizabeth J., et al. "Health Information Technology Collaboration in Community Health Centers: The Community Partners HealthNet, Inc." In Cases on Healthcare Information Technology for Patient Care Management, edited by Surendra Sarnikar, Dorine Bennett, and Mark Gaynor, 171-196. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2671-3.ch011

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Abstract

Health-Center-Controlled Networks (HCCNs) are collaborative ventures that provide health information technologies to Community Health Centers (CHCs). Community Partners HealthNet (CPH), Inc. is a HCCN. CPH’s member organizations are non-profit health care organizations that provide primary health care to individuals in medically underserved areas. As non-profits, they must regularly seek grant funding from foundations and state and federal agencies to provide quality, accessible health care. Consequently, initiatives to adopt and implement Health Information Technologies (HIT) require individual CHCs to carefully consider how best to incorporate HIT for improved patient care. This case study describes CPH, discusses the collaboration of six individual CHCs to create CPH, and then explains CPH’s on-going operations.

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