ONC and HHS Jointly Introduce "Investing in Innovations Initiative"

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Department of Health and Human Services has launched the new Investing in Innovations Initiative, or i2 Initiative, which is designed to spur innovations in health IT, according to an HHS news release.

The program centers on prizes and competitions to accelerate the development of solutions and communities around key challenges in health IT. ONC has awarded nearly $5 million to the Capital Consulting Corporation and Health 2.0 to fund projects supporting innovations in research and encouraging health IT development through open-innovation mechanisms like prizes and challenges.

The i2 Initiative will also analyze the current health IT environment in order to track and model clusters of innovation while also identifying connections between disparate innovator communities. The effort will help inform future advisory and policy-making activities.

Read the news release about the i2 Initiative.

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