HHS today announced a total of nearly $1 billion in ARRA awards to provote meaningful use of health information technology (IT) and train workers . Over $750 million are intended to build capacity to enable widespread meaningful use of health IT; $386 million will go to 40 states and qualified State Designated Entities (SDEs) to facilitate health information exchange (HIE) at the state level, while $375 million will go to an initial 32 non-profit organizations to support the development of regional extension centers (RECs) that will aid health professionals as they work to implement and use health information technology - with additional HIE and REC awards to be announced in the near future. The HHS Press Release includes a full list of the awards.  The award include $17,140,446 for the Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Health Care Reform.  I presume funds will be allocated to Pennsylvania program to develop its planned  Health Information Exchange (PHIX) .