Putting Patients First Grants

Building capacity to deploy the EEHRxF and digital health services and systems to support the rights of citizens and reuse of health data under EHDS is sponsored by European Commission — Digital Europe Programme. Expected Outcome: Expected outcomes and deliverables are: Work strand 1: Guidance for public authorities and healthcare providers to deploy, upgrade and operate digital health services and systems that support the rights of citizens and fulfil their obligations under the EHDS. Maintenance and expansion of a community of public authorities and healthcare providers based on common guidance for services and systems aligned with the objectives of the EHDS. The community should build upon one or more existing communities. Large-scale deployment of and/or capacity building for digital health services and systems that support the EEHRxF and the rights of citizens included in the EHDS. Work strand 2: A toolbox for data holders to support dataset description, data quality and utility labelling, and secondary use readiness in alignment with the EHDS. Establishment or expansion of existing community of data holders with the objective of supporting peer exchange, reuse of good practices and alignment of approaches for the creation and maintenance of dataset descriptions and data quality and utility labels for secondary use under the EHDS. Creation of dataset descriptions and data quality and utility labelling by data holders, such as public authorities and healthcare providers. Integration of datasets descriptions in the datasets catalogues of health data access bodies. Support to data holders in putting in place the organisational and technical arrangements required to make electronic health data available for secondary use under the EHDS, in line with applicable safeguards. Work strand 3: A training framework and training sessions to prepare service providers to support public authorities, healthcare providers and data holders in the implementation of the EHDS as described above, complementing and aligning with the work of the EEHRxF Support Centre, i2X Capacity Building for Secondary Use [1], and QUANTUM [2] . A business model, including the uptake strategy, for service providers that can support the adoption of the EEHRxF, the uptake of services and systems compatible with the EHDS and the creation and maintenance of dataset descriptions and data quality and utility labels. A community of trained service providers trained to support public authorities, healthcare providers and data holders in fulfilling requirements of the EHDS. 1 - https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/calls-tenders/capacity-building-secondary-uses-health-data-european-health-data-space_en 2 - https://quantumproject.eu/ Objective: Regulation (EU) 2025/327 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘The European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation’) [1] reinforces the rights for citizens to access and control their personal electronic health data and supports their freedom of movement by improving the cross-border exchange of such data to ensure continuity of healthcare. These rights include the right of natural persons or their representatives to access their personal electronic health data through electronic health data access services, the right to insert information in their own electronic health record (EHR), the right to rectification, the right to portability and the right to restrict access to their electronic health data. The rights also contribute to the achievement of the target of 100% of Union citizens having access to their electronic health records by 2030, as set in the Digital Decade policy programme. For primary use, implementing these rights under the EHDS Regulation requires concrete action, capacity-building and training, to support the digital health community, particularly public authorities, healthcare providers, and service providers, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), in the deployment of digital health services and systems that support these rights (across all the priority data categories) and that adopt the EEHRxF (European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format), taking into account the specific circumstances of different c Programme areas: DIGITAL-1 Keywords: Civil society organisations, Continuing professional training, Creation of processes and new forms of cooperation, Curricular education activities with enterprises, Data Security and Privacy, Data reuse, Digital Services and Platforms, Education, Education and Training, Europe's innovation potential, Health and Ecosystem Services, Health care, Health data, Health information, Health sciences, IT skills and competence, Identification of skills needs, Knowledge transfer, Learning outcomes, Life sciences, Privacy, Public administration, Public administration innovation, Public sector information, Public sector innovation, Quality of education/educational products, Regulation, Stakeholder management, Teaching materials, Training of trainers (multiplication), Transfer of educational results/products to new sectors, eHealth, Capacity building for healthcare providers, Cascading funding mechanism for digital health, Certified digital health service providers, Citizen health data rights, Community of practice for health data holders, Data management best practices, Digital Decade Policy Programme (2030 targets, Digital health service deployment, EEHRxF, EHDS compliance for healthcare providers, EU digital health policy, Electronic health records (EHR) access, European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format, Guidance for EHR system deployment, HDABs, Health Data Access Bodies, Health data governance, Health data holder obligations under EHDS, Health data holders, Health data interoperability, Healthcare providers, Patient-controlled health records, Primary and secondary use of health data, Public authority digital health readiness, Right to access electronic health data, Right to data portability in healthcare, Right to rectification of health data, Right to restrict health data access, Staff training in digital health systems, Toolbox for health data secondary use, Training for SMEs in digital health, Training framework for EHDS compliance

Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration is sponsored by Department of Health And Human Services. The Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration, authorized by section 6071 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-171), was designed to assist States to balance their long-term services and supports systems and help Medicaid enrollees transition from institutions to the community. Congress initially authorized up to $1.75 billion in Federal funds through Fiscal Year (FFY) 2011. With the subsequent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) in 2010, section 2403 extended the program through September 30, 2016. An additional $2.25 billion in Federal funds was appropriated through FFY 2016. Since then, section 2 of the Medicaid Extenders Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-3) added $112 million in Federal funds and changed the end date for the program from September 30, 2016 to September 30, 2021. Section 5 of the Medicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-16) changed the additional funding appropriated through the Medicaid Extenders Act from $112 million to $132 million and section 4 of the Sustaining Excellence in Medicaid Act of 2019 (P.L 116-39) changed the additional funding appropriated through the Medicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act from $132 million to $254.5 million. Section 205 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (P.L. 116-94) and section 3811 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116-136) provided an additional $337.5 million. Section 2301 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act (P.L. 116-159) added $66.4 million, section 1107 of the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021, and other Extensions Act (P.L. 116-215) added $6.5 million. Section 204 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260) added $1.253 billion, extended and made changes to the program. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L.117-328) added $1.8 billion and extended the program through September 30, 2027. . As required by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, grant funds appropriated for each fiscal year must be awarded by the end of the following fiscal year. Funds awarded to MFP grant recipients are available for the fiscal year in which they are awarded plus four additional fiscal years. Any portion of a grant award that is unexpended by the state at the end of the fourth succeeding fiscal year shall be rescinded and added to the appropriation for the fifth succeeding fiscal year. The MFP Demonstration supports State efforts to rebalance their long-term services and supports system so that individuals have a choice of where they live and receive services. MFP program goals are (1) increase the use of home and community-based services (HCBS) and reduce the use of institutionally-based services; (2) eliminate barriers in State law, State Medicaid plans, and State budgets that restrict the use of Medicaid funds to let people get long-term services and supports in the settings of their choice; (3) strengthen the ability of Medicaid programs to provide HCBS to people who choose to transition out of institutions; and (4) put procedures in place to provide quality assurance and improvement of HCBS. The demonstration provides for an enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for 12 months for qualified home and community-based services for each person transitioned from an institution to the community during the demonstration period. Eligibility for transition is dependent upon residence in a qualified institution for more than 60 consecutive days. The State must continue to provide community-based services after the 12-month period for as long as the person needs community-based services and is Medicaid eligible. Under the demonstration, the State must propose a system of Medicaid home and community-based care that will be sustained after the demonstration period and is deemed qualified by the Secretary. Specifically, the program must be conducted in conjunction with a "qualified HCBS program" which is a program that is in operation (or approved) in the State for such individuals in a manner that assures continuity of Medicaid coverage of services in the qualified HCBS program for eligible individuals. States may also propose to enhance the services they will provide during the demonstration period to achieve greater success with transition. States are required to participate in a national qualitative and quantitative evaluation conducted by CMS. Data collected on a national level helps evaluate the core objectives of the statute. This listing is currently active. Program number: 93.791. Last updated on 2026-01-01.

National Institute on Drug Abuse Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative is sponsored by Department of Health And Human Services. Since its launch with the support of Congress in 2018, the NIH HEAL Initiative has made the nation’s largest ever investment in research to end the national overdose crisis. Overdose fatalities account for tens of thousands of deaths annually and there are nearly 9 million Americans ages 12 and older who misused opioids in the past year, and an estimated 5.7 million with opioid use disorder (OUD), which is likely an undercount of how many people are actually affected. In parallel, chronic pain affects 50 million adults in the United States with nearly 20 million living daily with chronic pain that interferes with their lives and if improperly treated, puts them at risk for illicit opioid misuse alongside the risk of OUD and overdoses. The NIH HEAL Initiative was launched through specific Congressional funding to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to address these challenges using a multifaceted evidence-based approach that brings together scientists, healthcare providers, patient advocates, community members, the private sector, and multiple levels of government – all sharply focused on developing and deploying scientific solutions with the ultimate goal of preventing all overdoses and developing safer, nonaddictive treatments for pain. The NIDA HEAL Initiative strategic plan for OUD and overdoses includes two core research objectives around which NIDA will prioritize HEAL research investments: (1) Advance research to prevent and treat OUD and overdoses including overdoses that result from the use of multiple substances simultaneously. (2) Advance cross-cutting research to prevent and treat OUD and overdoses in the context of chronic pain and other mental health conditions that commonly occur in people who experience OUD. These research objectives incorporate other cross-cutting goals, including enhancing women’s and children’s health; addressing public health challenges across the lifespan; promoting collaborative science; and leveraging data science for biomedical discovery. This listing is currently active. Program number: 93.DAH. Last updated on 2026-01-28.