Colleagues,
Dr David Blumenthal, U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services (ONCHIT, HHS) has announced the recipients of the
$60 million Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects
(SHARP) program ...
... The awardees are —
Mayo
Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
and
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — ...
See below excerpts from Dr Blumenthal's message accompanying these awards ...
ENJOY!
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Research and Innovation that Translates into Practice
A Message from Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
April 2, 2010
Our quest to improve the health of Americans and the performance of our health care system depends critically on the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and the electronic exchange of health information...
...To this end, today ONC launched a major initiative aimed at promoting research and
innovation. Four renowned institutions — Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University
of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign —
were awarded research grants totaling $60 million through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program...
...Each
institution’s research projects will identify short-term and long-term solutions ... including ensuring the security of health IT (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), enabling patient-centered cognitive support for clinicians (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), making progress toward new health care application and network-platform architectures (Harvard University), and promoting the secondary use of EHR data while maintaining privacy and security (Mayo Clinic of Medicine)...
Sincerely,
David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services