At-risk, rural hospitals in Ohio, Minnesota and North Dakota will get $2.3 million-worth of technical help to switch from paper-based medical records to electronic ones. The 1,655 “critical access hospitals” in 41 states will get a total of $20 million in new technical help from the Health Information Technology Economic and Clinical Health Act, better known as HITECH.

Nonprofit health information exchange HealthBridge has received $13.8 million in federal funding to help area health providers better utilize information technology.

Case Western Reserve University faculty from the Center for Global Child Health and pediatricians at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital are helping to lead the pediatric disaster response to the Haiti earthquake.

Nonprofit health information exchange HealthBridge has received a $1.4 million contract from the Social Security Administration to provide electronic medical records to the government agency. In addition, Dayton’s Center for Healthy Communities received a $999,000 grant as part of the same project.