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The California Wellness Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, has granted Northeast Community Clinics $200,000 over three years for purchase of i2i Tracks. The new software system is expected to revolutionize the way community clinics like NECC tracks patients, especially those with chronic diseases, and report data to government and social service agencies and health collaboratives. Tracking patients is one of the biggest challenges now facing NECC, due in part to the influx of so many new patients because of recent closures of other community clinics and urgent care facilities that could not stay afloat during recent state budget stalemates.
"We believe i2i Tracks, a leading chronic disease and preventative health management system (CDMS), will help us track our patients more effectively and in the long run, provide a higher level of patient care," explains Dr. Christopher Lau, executive director/CEO. "Our focus initially will be tracking diabetic and asthma patients."
"By supplementing our current Patient Management systems with i2i, we can vastly improve our capabilities to provide complete health care services to our patient population," says Dr. Lau. "The addition of a system that automates tracking of patient health status, ongoing health problems and associated treatment can provide enormous benefits, both to Northeast and to our patients."
The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) is a private, independent foundation. Its mission is to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention. TCWF is one of the state's largest private foundations. Since its founding in 1992, the Foundation has awarded 5,450 grants totaling more than $685 million.
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