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About This Document: On Feb 16, 2009, Heritage Valley Health System announced that it had received a $661,500 grant from the $29 million Highmark Health Information Technology Grant Program. Highmark is one of the first health plans to support a meaningful e-prescribing implementation since the introduction of the recent Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA). Heritage Valley earned the grant by virtue of its highly successful e-prescribing initiative, part of its larger EHR program. Heritage Valley's board of directors and management team see the Highmark grant as recognition of their commitment to information technology (IT). For e-prescribing, they incorporated the complete acute care prescription file into their system and utilized the e-prescribing function built into their EHR. Thanks to the integrated implementation of its EHR solution, the hand-held devices and e-prescribing, it has achieved "continuity of care" regardless of whether a patient is in acute, long-term, or ambulatory care.

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