FAQs Update: Community College Workforce Training Program

FAQs Update: Community College Workforce Training Program
Accessed from ONC site on Dec 8, 2009.
Please note:
Questions are organized by category. ONC FAQ pages are updated frequently, so please check back often.

Question Categories:
     A. Background/General FAQs (Updated 12/8/09)
     B. Application FAQs (Updated 11/25/09)
     C. Award FAQs (Updated 12/8/09)
     D. Funding FAQs (Updated 11/25/09)

QUESTIONS
A. Background/General FAQs (Updated 12/8/09)
A1. What is a Community College Consortium?
A2. What constitutes a health information technology professional?
A3. What is a non-degree program?
A4. How does the CCC relate to other grants being offered by ONC?
A5. Does each Community College Consortium have to grant institutional certificates of completion?
A6. How should the training programs accommodate each trainee’s skill gap?
A7. What level of flexibility (to enable each trainee to enroll in courses) do each Consortium need to display?
A8. Does each Community College have to offer training for all six roles?
A9. What is the role of each Member Community College?
A10. What happens if the Community College cannot begin training before September 30th, 2010?
A11. Where can applicants find modifications to the FOA?
A12. What type of reporting will be required of successful recipients?
A13. Will awardees need to develop the education materials that will be used in this program?
A14.  In section 3016, subsection (c), number (2), it says “Programs designed to be completed in less than six months”.  Does this mean that the students enrolling in the program will be finished with the coursework in six months and ready to join the workforce?  Or, does it mean that the program itself will be completed and ready to begin enrolling students within six months of the funding?
A15.  Will ONC host webinar or workshop for prospective applicants?
A16.  How large should a consortium be to be competitive?
A17.  We would like to be considered by applicants as a potential “member” community college.  Is there a list of interested CC’s on which we can post contact information?

B. Application FAQs (Updated 11/25/09)
B1. Who may apply for a grant?
B2. What are the key due dates for application?
B3. Can we mail our letter of intent to apply or submit it through grants.gov (or use any other format than the email address specified)?

C. Award FAQs (Updated 12/8/09)
C1. When will awards be made?
C2. How will applicants be notified of an award?
C3.  Would you please clarify that only one award will be given for each region? I.e., In our region (Arizona, California and Nevada) only one award will be given with one Institution being the lead Institution and the others (both within and outside the lead Institution state) with sub-awards?
C4.  Will awardees need to develop the education materials that will be used in this program?
C5.  If my institution can be a lead awardee, will we also be eligible to submit a proposal for the second (as yet unreleased) FOA for curriculum development?

D. Funding FAQs (Updated 11/25/09)
D1. Is funding renewable?
D2.  What will the duration of the grants be and how much will be available per year?

Technical Assistance Teleconferences 1) December 16, 2009 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST
2) January 15, 2010 CALL IN DETAILS TO COME LATER. Watch ONC Web site.

See earlier post and summary and links to ONC announcements on Community College Consortia Workforce Program on e-Healthcare Marketing.

Healthcare Industry Takes 6 of IDG’s InfoWorld 2009 Top 100 IT Projects

Healthcare Industry Takes 6 of  IDG’ s InfoWorld
Top 100 IT Projects of 2009

Three hospital organizations, one Pharmacy Benefits Manager, one pharmaceutical company, and the combined initiative ConnectOpenSource (by Federal Health Architecture, ONC, and HHS) capture 6 of top 100 IT projects of 2009 in annual awards from IDG’s InfoWorld as published on November 23, 2009.  (InfoWorld ‘s Alpha Listing) 

According to Jason Snyder, Features Editor, InfoWorld, “This year’s recipients of InfoWorld’s highest honor are shining examples of IT projects undertaken by tech leaders committed to pushing their organizations forward.”

Federal Government
Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.connectopensource.org/
For Open Source Health Information Exchange Gateway   Top 100 Listing

Hospital organizations
El Centro (CA) Regional Medical Center
http://www.ecrmc.org/
For Operations Overhaul           Top 100 Listing

Halifax Health Systems (East Central Florida) http://www.halifaxhealth.org/
For Wireless Infrastructure Initiative  Top 100 Listing

University of Chicago Medical Center
www.uchospitals.edu
For SOA Records Management and Governance   Top 100 Listing

Pharmacy Benefits Manager
HealthTrans
http://www.healthtrans.com/
For Data Warehouse Initiative  Top 100 Listing

Pharmaceutical Company
Johnson & Johnson
www.jnj.com
For Social Media Employee Collaboration Platform   Top 100 Listing

Healthcare Apps on iPhone: Glimpse outside EHRs

15 Free Healthcare Apps for the iPhone
This is a diversion from the usual content about EHRs and Health IT, but perhaps it will get creative juices flowing. FierceHealthCare ran a June 9, 2009 feature showing 15 free healthcare apps for iPhone or iPod Touch that starts with this page: http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/slideshows/15-free-healthcare-apps-iphone You click on the first icon on upper right of text, and it starts the review.

Disclosure: The author of e-Healthcare Marketing blog owns shares of Apple.