Aging Services Technology Benefits from Health Care Reform law

A few inclusions (full report attached at title link):

4-year Certified EHR grant programs for long-term care facilities beginning in FY 2011. The grants are to be used to offset costs related to purchasing, leasing, developing, and implementing certified EHR technology and may be used for any computer infrastructure including hardware and software, upgrading current systems, and staff training;

Demonstration projects to develop best practices in skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities on the use of information technology to improve resident care;

New options for providing long-term services and supports, including a 'community first choice' optionfor home and community-based attendant care services;

Opportunities to develop a new method of providing home care for Medicaid enrollees with chronic conditions. Through the use of teams of health care providers this option allows states to provide a health home model for such individuals. It requires participating states to include a proposal for use of health information technology in providing health home services and improving service delivery and coordination across the care continuum (including the use of wireless patient technology to improve coordination and management of care and patient adherence to recommendations made by their provider).

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