Participating with Quality Insights of Delaware - Regional Extension Center (QIDE REC)
QIDE REC is here to help Delawares providers select, implement, and achieve meaningful use of Electronic Health Record systems in order to enhance health care quality, safety and efficiency. We look forward to working with you to determine your eligibility and begin moving you down the road to meaningful use. We encourage you to contact us for more information. Below we provide eligibliity guidelines.
Eligibility
For qualified providers, REC services are subsidized for individual providers by a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. To be eligible to receive these services, your practice must include Priority Primary Care Providers.
Priority Primary Care Providers (PPCPs) are defined as a licensed Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), a nurse practitioner (NP), or Physician Assistant (PA) with prescriptive privileges who provides primary care services in the areas of:
Internal Medicine
- Adolescent medicine
- Cardiology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
- Endocrinology
- Nephrology
- Oncology
Pulmonology
Rheumatology
Sports medicine
Pediatric Medicine
Adolescent medicine
Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- Developmental/behavioral
- Allergy/immunology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- Hematology/oncology
Nephrology
Pulmonology
Rheumatology
- Sports medicine
Osteopathic Medicine
- Addiction medicine
- Allegery/immunology
- Family medicine
- Internal medicine
- Rheumatology
- Prolotherapy Integrative pain management
- Sports medicine
Family Medicine
- Adolescent medicine
- Geriatric medicine
- Sports medicine
- Sleep medicine
- Hospice or palliative medicine
Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Reproductive endocrinology
- Infertility
To be eligible for these federally subsidized services practices must be either Individual or small group practices primarily focused on primary care. Small group practices are those with less than 10 providers per location.
- Public and critical access hospitals
- Community health centers and rural health clinics
- Other settings that predominantly serve the uninsured, underinsured, and medically underserved populations
If you are a primary care provider in a practice with greater than 10 providers, an outpatient specialist, a hospital employed provider, or in some other non-priority setting, the DE REC may be able to serve you on a non-subsidized contractual basis.