HHS https://www.hhs.gov, Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC), announced four awards totaling more than $2.7 million under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in HIT (LEAP in Health IT) funding opportunity.
The four LEAP in Health IT awardees will address development and testing for data sharing functionalities to support clinical care, research, and improved outcomes. The 2020 notice soliciting applications focused on:
- Advancing registry infrastructure for a modern application programming interface-based health IT ecosystem
- Cutting edge health IT tools for scaling health research
- Integrating healthcare and human services data to support improved outcomes
Under the LEAP in Health IT Program:
- The Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients, Inc. (CRISP) in partnership with the American College of Cardiology will accelerate adoption of modern standards both in the acquisition of clinical data for registry submission as well as use of clinical data to improve care decisions.
- The MedStar Health Research Institute with collaborators from Georgetown University’s Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI), the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), HealthLab, and Asymmetrik, will work on the current state of open source health IT tools.
- The Children’s Hospital Corporation in collaboration with Yale University and Yale-New Haven Health, will develop a FHIR-based platform to leverage bulk data to support an ecosystem for research and learning. Tools will be developed and tested to allow users to annotate FHIR-bulk for analytics, de-identify data, and query cohorts
- The Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH, Division of Developmental Disabilities (DD), in partnership with their stakeholders, will help DMH/DD advance the Value-based Payment (VBP) model to support person-centered planning, reporting on population health, data sharing, along with home and community-based services.