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FQHC REC Data Brief #8The 62 Regional Extension Centers assist providers with adopting and meaningfully using health information technology, particularly small practices and providers dedicated to enhancing access to care for underserved populations. HRSA-funded FQHC and FQHC Look-alike organizations serve over 20 million patients annually, and 83% of FQHCs have providers enrolled with a REC (18,268 providers). In most states, 90% or more of the FQHC organizations are participating with a REC. Almost four in five FQHC providers participating with a REC are live with an EHR, and about one in ten are demonstrating meaningful use. REC-enrolled providers working in FQHCs are significantly more likely to be live on an EHR than REC providers who do not practice in FQHCs (79% compared with 71%). Over half of the REC providers in FQHCs (53%) have received CMS EHR Incentive funds to adopt, implement or upgrade (AIU) EHR technology, and FQHC providers who are working with RECs have received over $209 million from the CMS EHR Incentive Program.
Read the Data Brief at http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/briefs.