Health Information Exchange Challenge Grant Program
Excerpted from ONC site on 1/27/2011.
Excerpted from ONC site on 1/27/2011.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded $16 million in new Challenge Grants to encourage breakthrough innovations for health information exchange that can be leveraged widely to support nationwide health information exchange and interoperability.
The Health Information Exchange (HIE) Challenge Grant Program is providing 10 awards between $1 and $2 million to State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program grantees to develop innovative and scalable solutions in five key areas:
- Achieving health goals through health information exchange
- Improving long-term and post-acute care transitions
- Consumer-mediated information exchange
- Enabling enhanced query for patient care
- Fostering distributed population-level analytics
The ONC-funded State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program promotes secure exchange of health information to enable patient-centered care and providers’ achievement of meaningful use requirements.
| State/SDE | Previous Award Amount | Amount Awarded January 2011 |
Challenge Theme |
| Colorado Regional Health Information Organization | $9,175,777 | $1,718,783 |
2 |
| Georgia Department of Community Health | $13,003,003 | $1,686,989 |
3 |
| Indiana Health Information Technology, Inc. | $10,300,000 | $1,718,439 |
4 |
| Indiana Health Information Technology, Inc. | $1,267,970 |
3 |
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| Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation | $10,599,719 | $1,717,610 |
2 |
| Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation | $1,675,019 |
5 |
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| Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene | $9,313,924 | $1,683,171 |
2 |
| HealthShare Montana | $5,767,926 | $1,400,802 |
5 |
| NC Dept of State Treasurer | $12,950,860 | $1,708,693 |
1 |
| Oklahoma Health Care Authrity | $8,883,741 | $1,719,086 |
2 |
| TOTAL | $79,994,950 | $16,296,562 |
Learn more about the funding opportunity for this important initiative.
