CVS, IBM Partner to Promote Health IT in Community Health Centers

CVS/Caremark and IBM have partnered to offer $1.5 million in grant funding to support the adoption and use of technologies that facilitate patient-provider communication at community health centers across the country.

The money will help grantees implement the necessary IT infrastructure to allow secure messaging between patients and caregivers and to allow patients to electronically access and download their medical records.

"We know that community health centers are seeing an increase in the number of patients they care for as a result of changes in our healthcare system, which is why we are partnering to invest in innovative technology solutions that will give them additional ways to communicate with patients and provide them with easy access to their health information," said Eileen Howard Boone, president of CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, in a news release. "We believe that the 'Technology Solutions for Smarter Health' program will provide community health centers and their patients with an opportunity to use technology in a meaningful way to help produce better health outcomes."

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