HHS will accept applications through July 20 and plans to pair up 10 external fellows with department fellows to work on specific projects. Topics the fellows will collaborate on could include:
- Accelerating clinical quality measures for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;
- Designing an electronic infrastructure to implement Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program eligibility requirements under the PPACA;
- Building technology to allow the use of medical equipment during prolong power outages in natural disasters; and
- Devising electronic tracking and transport of the nation’s organ transplant system.
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