Health IT Research Announced
The Health and Human Services Department's health information technology coordinator announced Friday that his office will be investing $60 million toward research aimed at providing breakthroughs in "critical areas" blocking adoption and use of health IT. "Innovative research and approaches are required to overcome some of the foremost challenges we face in achieving our vision of a transformed health care system enabled through health IT," David Blumenthal said in a statement
The Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects initiative will focus on research into four areas: development of security and risk mitigation policies and technology needed to ensure public trust in health IT systems; patient-centered cognitive support research; development of new and improved architectures needed for the secure, private and accurate electronic exchange of health information; and secondary use of electronic health record data research to identify ways to enhance the use of health IT to improve the quality of health care.
The projects will be funded through money provided under the economic stimulus package enacted in February. Applications for the projects are due by Jan. 25 and the awards are expected to be granted by March.
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