Northern Illinois Physicians For Connectivity

Defining patient centered healthcare for Illinois --
The White Paper for an Illinois Personal Health Record
See how the work of the authors of the White Paper for an Illinois
Personal Health Record can inspire national action

First Annual Illinois Healthcare Information Technology Summit February 25, 2006 Over 100 medical and civic leaders examined all that the new Information Technology can do for the patients of Illinois		NIPFC efforts earn 2007 TEPRCCR Award Towards the Electronic Patient Record Award news reports by Bio-IT World and Modern Healthcare NIPFC TEPR Conference Presentation
Decisive Cutting-Edge Healthcare Information Meetings Action at the Community Health Record of Illinois Conferences. Forging advances in Prescriptions, Patient Safety and Health Records through Information Technology.

NIPFC Membership
The benefits for practices...and patients of Illinois

Member CME Accreditation
The NIPFC Continuing Medical Education Program

Earn CME credits while accessing the NIPFC digital library on the following four core competencies: Implementing and maintaining an efficient digital office, Privacy and Security compliance, Quality Reporting and Exchanging data with other healthcare providers and patients.
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Let NIPFC help narrow down your EMR choices and be confident that you negotiated the best price on your EMR contract and computer hardware by participating in the NIPFC buying consortium.
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Blog with physicians in Northern Illinois who are experiencing similar issues around electronic medical records technology.
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Pose questions you have about electronic records to IT experts on the Provider Blog

What is NIPFC? NIPFC is working to foster both a secure network for healthcare data exchange...and a consortium for purchasing computer hardware, software, and IT consulting services. This makes participation beneficial to medical practices that have already implemented an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) as well as practices that are interested in implementing one in the future. Above all, NIPFC is a regional organization of physicians dedicated to applying the benefits of Information Technology for the maximization of the quality of health care..