The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced $22.3 million in grants to state health information technology projects intended to drive health IT adoption. Sixteen awards have been announced, bringing total AHRQ investment in health IT to $166 million so far. Key grants go to Franklin Foundation Hospital in coastal Louisiana, the Metro DC Health Information Exchange (MeDHIX), the University of Tennessee and the Holomua project in Hawaii.
- see this press release from AHRQ