Virginia Health Exchange Network Announces Multi-Payer Portal Solicitation

7/1/08 - Info Session - July 10th from 9:30-11:30am an info session will be held at the VHHA offices in Innsbrook for parties interested in responding to the RFI. The info session will include a short breifing and then allow for questions and answer. The session is open to anyone interested in responding to the RFI. Those interested in attending should RSVP to Thomas Gates at thomas.gates@governor.virginia.gov by 5pm on Tuesday June 8th to ensure we have enough space.

6/12/08 - As part of National Health IT Week, the Virginia Health Exchange Network (VHEN) today announced the release of a Request for Information (“RFI”) calling for proposals to create and maintain a technology solution to simplify patient insurance eligibility verification.  VHEN is a collaboration of Virginia health plans and health systems dedicated to lowering administrative costs in healthcare convened by the Virginia Association of Health Plans (VAHP), The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA), and the Governor’s Office of Health IT.

VHEN is committed to leveraging the work done by CAQH’s CORE initiative to build on existing electronic transactions as providers and health plans move to a paperless administrative environment in the coming years.  The RFI is available here and responses are due by August 15th, 2008. See the full release here.

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Governor Kaine Announces Second Round of Grant Awards

Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced, on January 21st, the award of the final two health information technology grants to projects designed to expand the use of electronic health records in Virginia: Centra Health in Lynchburg and the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NOVARHIO) in Fairfax County.

Each program has been awarded $150,000 through a grant program initiated by Governor Kaine last year with funding provided by the General Assembly. Both projects have found matching funds that combined with the state’s award of $300,000 create a total investment of more than $550,000.

Centra Health has proposed a project focused on allowing physicians in the Lynchburg area to use the American College of Cardiologist’s Program for Improving Continuous Cardiac Care through an expansion of their electronic medical records.  This project improves the ability of physicians to deliver high quality health care to cardiology patients in the Lynchburg region by providing physicians access to the most current, nationally recognized best practices for cardiac care. 

NOVARHIO, in partnership with INOVA Health System and Erickson Retirement Communities, will be the first to create a mechanism to ensure electronic access to patient medication histories in the emergency room. NOVARHIO also will simultaneously launch a program to educate citizens in northern Virginia about the need for a personal health record.

These grants complete the award of Health IT Grants started last year with three $250,000 awards to CareSpark in Southwest Virginia, the Community Care Network of Virginia in Southside, and MedVirginia in Central Virginia. These programs have already used their state funding to help draw down over $6 million in federal funding.

The Virginia Department of Health and Health IT Council will continue to monitor the progress of all five recipiants.

 

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