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History In 1995, five community health care agencies with a collective history of over seventy-five years of experience in providing primary care services to uninsured, underinsured and Medicaid populations, formed an Integrated Services Network (ISN), Community Health Access Network (CHAN). A New Hampshire Health Care Transition Fund grant in 1996 set the opportunity to expand the network and develop shared services. Two additional health centers joined the Network in 1997, and the Network was further supported by a Bureau of Primary Health Care grant. Today, CHAN administers several grants from Federal, State of New Hampshire and private foundation sources. Originally, the Network Members established mutual standards for software selection and operations at the separate sites. This arrangement necessitated careful coordination between each site to ensure the core uniformity of data collection, storage and output expected by the Network. It soon became evident that a more central configuration of the system would provide efficiencies and better support the desired level of integration. CHAN then orchestrated the implementation of a Wide Are Network (WAN) beginning in 1999. As an integrated provider network CHAN

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