Gold Coast HIT
Gold Coast Health I.T. Resource Center is a VCMA subsidiary and recipient of a $2.5 million contract to provide subsidized assistance to Primary Care Physicians to select and implement HER systems, and provide discount services to Specialty Physicians.
Gold Coast Health I.T. (GC H.I.T.) Resource Center walks Physicians and Allied Health Professionals through all steps of EHR adoption from facilitating training and education, to readiness and workflow assessment, assistance with vendor selection, group purchasing discounts, project planning & management, facilitated EHR training, workflow redesign, customization, infrastructure, interfaces and assistance with Meaningful Use Reporting.
Their goal is to enable providers to receive the federal incentive payments.
GC H.I.T. is a trusted, vendor neutral service organization serving Physicians by facilitating adoption and use of Electronic Health Records. GC H.I.T. is a Local Extension Center (LEC) whose mission is to assist Priority Primary Care Providers to adopt and use Electronic Health Records and a source for technical assistance and support for those already using an EHR, and helping those with an EHR progress to demonstrate meaningful use. Our goal is to maximize Return on Investment (ROI) and to assist all in attaining meaningful use to qualify for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act payments of $44,000—$64,000 per provider beginning in 2011.
Historically many EHR implementations have had limited success and ROI. GC H.I.T. is a service designed to help Physicians and Allied Health Professionals succeed in their transition from a paper-based practice to one which uses an EHR by facilitating Education, Readiness and Workflow Assessment, Cost Analysis, Budget, and Coordination of Hardware and Software Vendors to maximize ROI and enable Physicians to begin receiving the federal incentive payments.
Priority Primary Care Provider (PPCP) is defined as a MD, DO, NP, PA, CNMW certified in Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, OB/GYN, and Adolescent Medicine focused on primary care in:
• Individual & less than 10 group practices.
• Community and rural health centers.
• Public and critical access hospitals.
• Settings which serve the uninsured.
Gold Coast Local Extension Center is funded by CalHIPSO, the federally-designated Regional Extension Center funded by the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services, Award Numbers: 90RC0031/01 and 90RC0034/01.
STAFF
James CoburnDirector
Kelly J. Driscoll
Administrative Support
Gold Coast HIT Resource Center
kdriscoll@goldcoasthit.org
PHONE
Coastal - Phone: (805)512-9999
Central Valley - Phone: (661)347-3147
FAX: (805) 512-9999
EMAIL
Customer Support
support@goldcoasthit.org
Customer Service
info@goldcoasthit.org
