HHS awards $1.5M to boost information flow

HHS has awarded seven organizations a piece of a $1.5 million pool to create solutions to improve the flow of health information.

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The awards are through two ONC innovation programs, the High Impact Pilot and the Standards Exploration Award, funding opportunities for interested parties developing solutions to boost interoperability.

The organizations receiving the funding awards are:

The Health Collaborative

Lantana Consulting Group

RxREVU, Inc

The University of Utah (Salt Lake City)

Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology

Cincinnati Children’s HospitalMedicalCenter

Sysbiochem

“We are excited to support these innovative projects that advance the use of common standards to improve care, particularly in the categories of comprehensive medication management, laboratory data exchange and care coordination,” B. Vindell Washington, MD, national coordinator, said in a statement.

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