States Line Up for Grants Under ONC’s Health Information Exchange Challenge Program

In December 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced plans to provide 10 states with a total of about $16 million in grants to promote breakthroughs in health information exchange.

The new grant initiative — called the Health Information Exchange Challenge Program — aims to help states test solutions for five challenging areas of health data exchange:

• Achieving health goals through health information exchanges;
• Advancing consumer-mediated information exchange;
• Developing enhanced tools for data searches;
• Fostering strategies for population-level analysis; and
• Improving transitions in long-term and post-acute care.

In an iHealthBeat Special Report by Pat McConahay, experts from several states discuss the new ONC grant program.

The Special Report includes comments from:

• Jonah Frohlich, managing director of Manatt Health Solutions and former deputy secretary for health IT at the California Health and Human Services Agency;
• Marc Overhage, CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange;
• Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative; and
• Claudia Williams, director of the state health information exchange program at ONC.

Williams said ONC plans to award the grants in February (McConahay, iHealthBeat, 1/12).

The complete transcript of the report is available as a PDF.

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