About LHIT Resource Center

What is the Louisiana Health Information Technology Resource Center?
 
Improving health care in the United States through the use of health information technology is a major initiative today.  For providers, it begins with the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). 
 
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) funded 62 Regional Extension Centers across the country to help more than 100,000 primary care providers meaningfully use EHRs by April 2014.

 
titleThe Louisiana Health Information Technology (LHIT) Resource Center serves as the Regional Extension Center for our state and has received $7.8 million in federal grant funds to support its work. The LHIT Resource Center aims to provide on-the-ground assistance, guidance and information to 1,042 primary care providers and 64 critical access/rural hospitals for adoption and implementation of EHRs to maintain patients' health information.

In partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Grant #90RC0049.