Currently Available Funding Opportunities

• Health Information Technology Extension Program (cycle 2)
  • Objective: This program provides grants for the establishment of Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers that will offer technical assistance, guidance and information on best practices to support and accelerate health care providers’ efforts to become meaningful users of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
  • Application Deadline: 
    • Cycle 1: Full Applications - November 3, 2009
    • Cycle 2: Preliminary Applications - December 22, 2009; Full Applications - January 29, 2010 

• Curriculum Development Centers
  • Objective:  This funding opportunity, one component of the Health IT Workforce Program, will provide $10 million in grants to institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof) to support health information technology (health IT) curriculum development.
  • Application Deadline:  January 14, 2010 (Letter of Intent due January 4, 2010)

• Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals
  • Objective: This program, one component of the Health IT Workforce Program, seeks to rapidly create health IT education and training programs at Community Colleges or expand existing programs.  Community Colleges funded under this initiative will establish intensive, non-degree training programs that can be completed in six months or less.
  • Application Deadline:  January 22, 2010 (Letter of Intent due January 6, 2010)

• Program of Assistance for University-Based Training
  • Objective:  The purpose of this program, one component of the Health IT Workforce Program, is to rapidly increase the availability of individuals qualified to serve in specific health information technology professional roles requiring university-level training.  
  • Application Deadline:  January 25, 2010 (Letter of Intent due January 8, 2010)

• Competency Examination for Individuals Completing Non-Degree Training
  • Objective:  This funding opportunity, one component of the Health IT Workforce Program, will provide $6 million in grants to an institution of higher education (or consortia thereof) to support the development and initial administration of a set of health IT competency examinations.
  • Application Deadline:  January 25, 2010 (Letter of Intent due January 8, 2010) 

• Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program
  • Objective:  The purpose of these awards is to fund research focused on achieving breakthrough advances to address well-documented problems that have impeded adoption: 1) Security of Health Information Technology; 2) Patient-Centered Cognitive Support; 3) Healthcare Application and Network Platform Architectures; and, 4) Secondary Use of EHR Data.
  • Application Deadline:  January 25, 2010 (Letter of Intent due January 8, 2010)

• Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program
  • Objective:  This program will provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of meaningful health IT.
  • Application Deadline:  February 1, 2010 (Letter of Intent due January 8, 2010)