Here are four hospitals and health systems that have received outside funding to further develop their technology stack:
- McLeansboro, Ill.-based Hamilton Memorial Hospital has received an $895,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help fund its Epic EHR system.
- Health plan Univera Healthcare awarded a grant to Jamestown, N.Y.-based UPMC Chautauqua to expand its behavioral telehealth services.
- Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Melax Tech, a company specializing in natural language processing, have received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a clinical decision-support tool for early detection of cognitive decline. The two-year collaboration will develop algorithms to identify patients with early cognitive decline via EHRs.
- Legacy Community Health, a Houston-based network of 41 clinics, received $1 million in federal funds to upgrade its Epic EHR system.
