The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for HIT announced seven recipients of two Cooperative Agreement award programs to share $1.5 million to create standards-based solutions that will improve the exchange of health information.
“We are excited to support these innovative projects that will advance the use of common standards particularly in comprehensive medication management, laboratory data exchange, and care coordination,” said Vindell Washington M.D. National Coordinator for HIT.
At the Health Datapalooza Conference held in May, ONC announced the High Impact Pilot (HIP) www.healthit.gov/techlab/pilots/high-impact-pilots and Standards Exploration Award (SEA) available funding www.healthit.gov/techlab/pilots/standards-exploration-awards that generated interest from more than 35 applicants.
The awardees for the High Impact Pilot programs are:
- The Health Collaborative— http://healthcollab.org a partnership between the Health Collaborative and the Strategic HIE Collaborative will use existing standards to advance a network of networks model as part of a Patient-Centered Data Model pilot project
- Lantana Consulting group— www.antanagroup.com to create a new standard for electronic pharmacist care plans (ePhCP) which have not been included in the Interoperability Standards Advisory
- RxREVU Inc.— https://rxrevu.com to develop a collaborative project between RxREVU, a Denver-based prescription intelligence company and Banner Health System to leverage patient-specific data to be shared via FHIR
- University of Utah— https://medicine.utah.edu/dbmi will be involved in a community primary care project to enable clinicians and the university’s vascular surgery service use common EHR platforms to share information through a novel closed-loop surgical referrals dashboard application
The awardees for the Standards Exploration Awards are:
- Arkansas Office of HIT—www.ohit.arkansas.gov to implement an interoperable bi-directional HIE with behavioral health providers
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center— www.cincinnatichidrens.org will explore the cost efficiencies of integrating healthcare and clinical research systems with the medical center’s EHR
- Sysbiochem— www.sysbiochem.com to collaborate with Boston Children’s Hospital www.hildrenshospital.org, Intermountain Healthcare https://intermountainhealthcare.org, and Massachusetts General Hospital www.massgeneral.org, to develop services to facilitate the integrated flow of data between an EHR, Laboratory Informatics System, and an analytic application to help clinicians coordinate care for breast cancer patients