ALBANY, N.Y. — Rome Health Hospital, Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg are among the hospitals awarded state funding for information-technology (IT) and cybersecurity work.
The awards are among more than $300 million in new state funding to support health-care transformation projects across New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday.
The grants, made through the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program IV and V, will support 22 projects aimed at improving health-information technology by expanding patient electronic-medical records, strengthening cybersecurity, and patient-information security, and expanding telehealth services.
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Rome Health Hospital will use a nearly $19 million grant award to replace six disparate electronic-medical records with a single integrated system.
Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown will use a nearly $22 million grant for implementing a unified electronic-health record system.
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg will use a nearly $5 million grant for its project called, “Carthage Area Hospital CyberGuard Health Initiative: Cybersecurity Protection and EHR Optimization.”
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center and Carthage Area Hospital operate under the same leadership.
“With these investments, we are focused on developing safe, reliable and connected patient-centered care,” Dr. James McDonald, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, said in the state’s announcement. “By expanding data capabilities and improving cybersecurity defenses, we’re enhancing clinical decision making across the state’s health care network.”
