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Oklahoma submitted on October 15th the application for the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program (SHIECAP) promoting health information technology within the state. The final submitted application documents are below. If you would like to get involved please complete the feedback form at the right side of the page.

• OHCA Awarded Federal Dollars - Grant Awards to Help Make Health IT Available to Over 100,000 Health Providers by 2014, Support Tens of Thousands of Jobs Nationwide
• Budget Narrative 
• Project Narrative 
• Project Abstract
• Governor's Designated Entity Letter 
• Oklahoma Letter of Intent 
• Past Meetings
• Health Cabinet Health IT Committee/Reports 

The adoption of health information technology (health IT) is one of the major policy priorities of the recently passed Recovery Act. The Recovery Act package includes $2 billion in appropriated funds to support a series of grants, loans, and technical assistance programs designed to aid providers with the adoption of EHRs and to spur health information exchange at the state, regional and local levels. Areas of interest include:

• CMS Guidance Regarding CLIA and the Electronic Exchange of Laboratory Data 
• CMS Recovery Act
• Meaningful Use 
• Oklahoma Electronic Health Records Incentive Payment Program 
• Electronic Health Records (EHR) Adoption Loan Program 
• Grant Opportunities 
• Health Information Technology Extension Program
• Implementation Advance Planning 
• SMHP Update 

Presentations

• HIE-BAY Concepts­ and Terminology 
• What's In It For Me? 
• Forum Welcome Screen 
• Infrastructure Welcome Screen