eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant Program

eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant Program is sponsored by eHealth Exchange. This program offers grants for projects that boost electronic health information exchange or develop new technical connectivity tools, with proposals leveraging HL7 FHIR or other interoperability standards encouraged. Multi-organizational applications are welcome.

eHealth Exchange Announces $550,000 Innovation Grant - eHealth Exchange eHealth Exchange Announces $550,000 Innovation Grant Program Aims To Spur Rapid Advances In Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange Innovation (Vienna, VA – March 21, 2022) – The eHealth Exchange, one of the nation’s largest health information networks connecting federal agencies and providers, today launched the eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant program.

The program seeks to award as much as $550,000 in grants and other incentives to organizations pursuing innovative ways to increase exchange of electronic health information (EHI) or establish new technical advancements in connectivity. “With all great technological advances – from the early days of the internet to self-driving cars – early progress is marked by slow, incremental change.

But then a tipping point is reached, and significant innovations happen on what seems like a daily basis,” explained Jay Nakashima, eHealth Exchange executive director. “Health data sharing is now at this critical moment, and the eHealth Exchange wants to play an instrumental role in driving toward the health IT future we’ve talked about and worked toward for more than a decade.

” The non-profit health information network is optimistic its public-benefit grant program will encourage innovation in how health information is exchanged and used. Nakashima continued, “Over the past decade, we’ve implemented the infrastructure for secure electronic health information exchange and achieved an impressive level of comfort and expectation for certain types of exchange.

It’s time to build on this base of connectivity and get to the next level of data sharing as quickly as possible. We can’t wait to see the explosion of ways in which health data will be used for everything ranging from patient-focused mobile health apps to improved clinical decision support.

” Grant applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that might increase exchange by leveraging HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) or other eHealth Exchange technical specifications . Grant awardees will be responsible for producing an implementation guide for the project that will benefit the broader community of eHealth Exchange and its participants.

All proposals should provide implementation, testing, and production details. The eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant is open to eHealth Exchange participants and any eHealth Exchange-eligible applicants. Organizations also may team for a multi-organizational application.

eHealth Exchange anticipates as many as three awards, each valued as much as $100,000, for one-year, milestone-driven grants. Successful grantees will receive a credit for eHealth Exchange participation fees previously paid in 2022 (if any), and they may have fees waived in 2023, provided that the solution is fully operational in production.

eHealth Exchange expects to perform significant technical coordination and testing throughout the project. To learn more about the eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant and apply, visit the eHealth Exchange website .

eHealth Exchange, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to public good, is the oldest and largest health information network in the country and is most well known as the principal way the federal government exchanges clinical data among federal agencies and with the private sector.

Recognized for certified data quality, trusted governance, transparency, and its commitment to privacy, eHealth Exchange facilitates the secure exchange of patient records for more than 300 million patients and processes roughly 25 billion data exchanges annually.

Vendor-agnostic, with a broad public health focus, eHealth Exchange provides connectivity for more than 30 electronic health record systems, 57 regional and state HIEs, 75 percent of U.S. hospitals, 90 percent of dialysis centers, 70,000 medical groups, and payers in 34 states – as well as countless urgent care centers, surgery centers, and clinical laboratories.

Five federal agencies (Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Indian Health Service (IHS), Food and Drug Administration, and Social Security Administration) also participate in the network to share patient information with private-sector partners as well as other federal agencies.

Active in all 50 states, eHealth Exchange connects to other national health information networks today via Carequality and now TEFCA™ as a Designated QHIN™. See: https://ehealthexchange. org / @ehealthexchange .

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