Government and Regulations
HHS Hails Big Ideas
At the HHS 2015 Innovation Awards, 7 projects were praised for their ground breaking solutions on how to improve health care.
More than $38 million in HHS grants for improving coordinated health information sharing across the U.S. bring us another step closer to an interoperable learning health system. HHS announced 20 awardees for 3 health information technology (IT) programs.
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One program receiving a grant is Advance Interoperable Health Information Technology Services to Support Health Information Exchange, a 2-year cooperative agreement program that supports the efforts of 12 states or state-designated entities, including the Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology, the California Emergency Medical Services Authority, and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
Related: Dissemination of a Care Collaboration Project
The second health IT program, The Community Health Peer Learning Program, works with communities to identify data solutions and disseminate best practices and learning guides, among other initiatives.
The third program, The Workforce Training Program, trains incumbent health care workers to use new health ITs in settings such as team-based care, long-term care, and patient-centered medical homes.
