ONC to Add 16th and 17th Beacon Health IT Communities
Excerpted from ONC Beacon Communities Page
“The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program provides communities with funding to build and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) infrastructure and exchange capabilities. These communities will demonstrate the vision of a future where hospitals, clinicians, and patients are meaningful users of health IT, and together the community achieves measurable improvements in health care quality, safety, efficiency, and population health.
“In May 2010, ONC made awards to 15 Beacon Communities. An additional $30.3 million is currently available to fund additional Beacon Community cooperative agreement awards. An announcement to apply was made on May 26, 2010.
“Beacon Communities will generate and disseminate evidence and insights that are applicable to the rest of the nation about the use of health IT resources to inform a range of specific clinical, care delivery, and other reforms that, together, can enable communities to achieve measurable and sustainable improvements in health care cost, quality, and population health. The Beacon Community Program will include $250 million in awards to 17 communities with an additional $15 million for technical assistance to help these communities succeed and to evaluate what works.”
Learn more about the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program:
- Additional $30.3 Million is available to fund 2 Beacon communities, see Funding Opportunities Announcement [MS Word doc - 822 KB]
- Letter of intent due Wednesday, June 9, 2010
- Application due Monday, June 26, 2010
- To see the full announcement, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/basic.do and search for CFDA# 93.727
- Facts-At-A-Glance [PDF – 388 KB]
- Frequently Asked Questions
Please note: This section (of the ONC site) is updated frequently. Please check back often for updates.
- ONC hosted technical assistance calls to answer questions related to the Beacon Community Program on December 14, 2009, and January 20, 2010. View the slides and transcripts from the calls.
- Additional technical assistance calls will be held in May 2010. Details are forthcoming.
For questions relating to the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program, email BeaconCommunityGrants@hhs.gov.
# # #For previous e-Healthcare Marketing posts on Beacon Communities, see –15 Health IT Communities Named
–Blumenthal Letter #14: Beacon Communities
–ONC Blog: Beacon Communities Lead Charge
