RALEIGH, NC – The Center for Community Health Leadership, an organization sponsored by Misys Healthcare Systems, has announced that hardware vendors Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo will offer computer equipment, including servers, laptops, desktops, tablet PCs and scanners, to the center grant recipients “at a significantly discounted price.”
Launched in June 2006 to spearhead the widespread adoption of electronic health records on a community-by-community basis and reduce costs in everyday care administration, the center has already awarded about $3 million worth of healthcare software to New Haven, Conn. The offers from Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo will enable physicians in the New Haven community to more quickly afford the hardware needed to help create a connected healthcare community through the use of electronic medical records.
“Medical institutions often don’t have the resources or the know-how to make the desired leap to electronic medical records, much less to participate in data sharing initiatives within their community,” said center director Leigh Burchill in a press release. “The center aims to make electronic medical records accessible to any interested medical professional within the selected communities, allowing them to experience the practice efficiencies and patient care improvements that result from EMR use at the individual level and across the community. Aligning with well-known hardware vendors has been one of the center’s goals from the beginning, knowing that their support will further offset the costs that have historically been obstacles to moving forward for the grant recipients.”
The center plans to provide grants of up to $10 million to communities across the country. Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo have pledged to provide the same discounts to physicians within the other grant recipient communities once they are named.