Intivia, Inc., a provider of integrated electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management software called InSync, announced today that it has been selected as a participating EHR vendor by the New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC).
NJ-HITEC is the federally designated Regional Extension Center (REC) for New Jersey established by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) through a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator, according to pr.com.
The nation’s healthcare system is undergoing a transformation in an effort to improve quality, safety and efficiency of care by harnessing advances in EHR technologies and health information exchanges, according to njhitec.org. To help facilitate this, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or the “HITECH Act” authorizes the creation of Health Information Technology Extension Programs. The extension program consists of Regional Extension Centers (REC).As a qualified EHR vendor with NJ-HITEC, Intivia will help small practices drive EMR adoption through the use of InSync EMR & Practice Management Software. The selection process evaluated Intivia’s strengths, background, ONC-ATCB Certification and its software capabilities to help small primary care practices meet “Meaningful Use” guidelines defined by the federal HITECH Act.
Under HITECH, eligible health care professionals and hospitals can qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments when they adopt certified EHR technology and use it to achieve specified objectives, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“We are pleased to add Intivia to our list of NJ-HITEC participating vendors,” said Bill O’Byrne, executive director of NJ-HITEC, in the press release at pr.com. “These vendors have been fully accredited by the ONC and have agreed to comply with the high standards of provider satisfaction that NJ-HITEC expects from its participating vendors. It provides our members with another excellent choice when selecting an EHR system.”
Added James Decker, vice president of sales and marketing, Intivia, Inc., “We are pleased to partner with NJ-HITEC and provide our solution to the primary care provider community in our home state of New Jersey. We feel that the combination of InSync’s features, benefits and competitive pricing will help primary care practices take the next steps toward EMR adoption.”
In April 2008, NJIT received a $23 million grant from the ONC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support primary health care providers in accelerating the adoption of health information technology. NJ-HITEC was established through this grant to serve at least 5,000 primary care providers during the next four years. NJ-HITEC’s long-term objective is to have New Jersey’s primary care providers become proficient users of EHR systems utilizing the systems’ interoperability via Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).
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