The Office of the National Coordinator is distributing grants for breakthrough pilots in state health information exchanges to work through five challenges in sharing patient records nationwide, according to a government announcement.
The Health Information Exchange Challenge Program encourages breakthrough progress for nationwide health information exchange in five challenge areas identified as key needs. The five key areas include achieving health goals through health information exchange; improving long-term and post-acute care transitions; giving patients access to their own health information; developing tools and approaches to search for and share granular patient data, such as specific lab results for a given time period; and fostering strategies for population-level analysis.
Award amounts will range between $1 million and $2 million and will supplement funding to state HIE cooperative agreements.
Read the announcement about the Health Information Exchange Challenge Program.
Read other coverage about health IT funding:
- GOP's New 'Pledge to America' Puts Into Question $19B in Healthcare IT Funding for Hospitals, Physicians Offices
- Blumenthal: Federal Health IT funding to Create 50,000 Jobs in Next 5 Years
- Iowa Medicaid to Receive $1.16M in Federal Matching Funds for EHR Incentives Program
The Health Information Exchange Challenge Program encourages breakthrough progress for nationwide health information exchange in five challenge areas identified as key needs. The five key areas include achieving health goals through health information exchange; improving long-term and post-acute care transitions; giving patients access to their own health information; developing tools and approaches to search for and share granular patient data, such as specific lab results for a given time period; and fostering strategies for population-level analysis.
Award amounts will range between $1 million and $2 million and will supplement funding to state HIE cooperative agreements.
Read the announcement about the Health Information Exchange Challenge Program.
Read other coverage about health IT funding:
- GOP's New 'Pledge to America' Puts Into Question $19B in Healthcare IT Funding for Hospitals, Physicians Offices
- Blumenthal: Federal Health IT funding to Create 50,000 Jobs in Next 5 Years
- Iowa Medicaid to Receive $1.16M in Federal Matching Funds for EHR Incentives Program