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Ohio Governor Strickland Announces Ohio Health Information Exchange [HIE] Partnership Wins $43 Million to Develop Health Information Exchange Ohio Receives Total of $72 Million in Recovery Act Grants for Health IT, Health Care Job Training

Columbus, Ohio – Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today announced that the Ohio Health Information Partnership, the non-profit entity he designated to lead the implementation of Ohio’s health information technology efforts, competed for and won $43 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the development and implementation of a health information exchange.

As a lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church I will help him bring money to Cincinnati [Aprox. $15M] in a HIE demonstration. To show the church what can be done in over 10% of our 35,000 churches in the United States and 4,000 in Africa that we would connect via the Internet of today and tomorrow through being the 24th user of the Patent in a new pool established..

The nature of health care has changed substantially since biblical times, but the importance of health care has remained the same. Consistent with the Social Principles and Book of Resolutions, the General Board of Church and Society advocates for health care as a human right that must be made available to all.

From our earliest days we United Methodists have believed that providing health care to others is an important duty of Christians. John Wesley found ways to offer medical services at no cost to the poor in London. The first Methodist Social Creed (adopted in 1908) urged working conditions to safeguard the health of workers and community.

We at Hargrove Engineering, where I am the Business Development Director, plan to leverage the 40 million dollar grant at 10 to 1 with the state [we are asking in part or whole] putting up to 400 million dollars into the Second African American Bank of Cincinnati headed by Fred Hargrove, Sr, PE, MBA and a United Methodist Based Team being assembled this week, if we win the OHIP grant amount of 40 million dollars.

It will take 3 million dollars to raise the money with firms on the Hargrove Team that includes companies who sell over eight billion dollars a year in goods and services. Through Hargrove Engineering our team is short listed for the OHIP Grant. The Team mentioned in the Hargrove Engineering RFI included McGraw Daniels LLC, I-Open, Dr Shegog, Dr. Perry, and Dr Robert Day

We will submit by March 29th 2010 a updated Request for Information (RFI) that addresses OHIP’s mission to advance the adoption, implementation and meaningful use of health IT among health care providers by facilitating and developing a statewide HIE to improve the safety , quality, accessibility, availability and efficiency of health care for citizens of Ohio with 443 million dollars invested in Ohio starting in April 2010.

As the state-designated entity for Ohio’s statewide health information exchange, OHIP is seeking a full service HIE solution that best fits its goals, objectives, strategies and vision as supported by Ohio Health Care Coverage and Quality Council (OHCCQC) and outlined in the reference documents included in this request.

We look forward to holding working sessions over the next two weeks that cover our responses to the OHIP RFI that will be carefully reviewed and are working on a more detailed Request for Proposal (RFP) that will be prepared based on the feedback received. The RFP will be sent to selected, qualified respondents. As a part of the qualifying process, respondents may be asked to provide a demonstration of their proposed

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