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HHS Awards $1.5M to Pilot Programs to Improve Flow of Health Info

by Jasmine Pennic 09/30/2016 Leave a Comment

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced seven recipients of two Cooperative Agreement programs to improve the flow of health information. The awardees of the High Impact Pilot (HIP) and Standards Exploration Award (SEA) will share a total of $1.5 million to create standards-based solutions that facilitate the exchange of health information. Awardees are expected to report results September 15, 2017.

The awardees for the High Impact Pilot programs are:

– The Health Collaborative exit disclaimer icon: The Heartland Pilot is a partnership between The Health Collaborative and the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC). It will use existing standards to advance a “network of networks” model as part of a Patient-Centered Data Model pilot project.

– Lantana Consulting Group exit disclaimer icon: This project will create a new standard for electronic pharmacist care plans (ePhCP), which have not been included in the Interoperability Standards Advisory. The project pilot will use health IT standards to integrate pharmacist care plans into coordination efforts for patient care across the health continuum.

– RxREVU, Inc exit disclaimer icon.: This collaborative project between RxREVU, a Denver-based prescription intelligence company, and the Banner Health System plans to leverage patient-specific data shared via Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) – a promising new interoperability standard – to reduce overall prescription drug spending, provide useful information on patient medication adherence, and operationalize organizational best practices.

– The University of Utah exit disclaimer icon: This community primary care project will allow clinicians and the University of Utah’s vascular surgery service that use common electronic health record (EHR) platforms to share information through a novel closed-loop surgical referrals dashboard application. This app will be designed to integrate with commercially available EHRs using the emergingSustainable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART exit disclaimer icon) on FHIR standard.

The awardees for the Standards Exploration Awards are:

– Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology exit disclaimer icon: The Arkansas project will implement interoperable, bi-directional health information exchange with behavioral health providers.

– Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center exit disclaimer icon: The Cincinnati project will explore the cost efficiencies of integrating healthcare and clinical research systems with the medical center’s electronic health record (EHR). This will enable patient data from the EHR to be used for research as well as direct patient care more efficiently.

– Sysbiochem exit disclaimer icon: In collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Sysbiochem is developing 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

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