Project Grant R43LM012955

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) was awarded a $999,768 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology program (CFDA 93.345). The two-year project aims to advance the adoption of Individual Access Services (IAS) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement...

This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, supports a comprehensive $398,972 study on improving healthcare quality and equity for newborns with prenatal substance exposure. The study, conducted by the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) network and the EMPOWER stakeholder group, aims to:...

This federal Project Grant award of $410,924 was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) to fund the development of QUALLM, an innovative automated toolset that leverages Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to enable real-time abstraction and evaluation of clinical quality measures. The goal is to revolutionize healthcare quality...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the Interior Business Center on behalf of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) CFDA program, provides $6,474,003.00 in funding to The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop a national primary care electronic health record data resource. The key objectives are to expand primary care registry enrollment, enhance EHR data through linkage with additional data, validate the data, and innovate with technology for secure,...

This Project Grant award of $540,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: TOWARD ADVERSARIALLY ROBUST AND PRIVACY-PRESERVING EHR SYSTEMS: DATA COMPLEXITY AND NEW TRAINING PARADIGMS", aims to address adversarial robustness and privacy concerns in electronic health record (EHR) systems. The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: (1) developing a comprehensive...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a multi-year study to expand and refine a natural language processing (NLP) system to analyze documentation patterns in electronic health records (EHRs) from hospital birth admissions. The total award is $570,885 and the performance period runs from August 19, 2025 to July 31,...

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, along with its partners Elimu Informatics, Inc. and Emory Healthcare, were awarded a $999,227 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology program (CFDA 93.345). The project, "Powering Proactive Care: FHIR Subscriptions as the...

This federal Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will support a $142,864 project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The goal is to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and used by clinical decision...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program supports research to improve understanding of delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in ambulatory care settings. The project aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data and stakeholder expertise to identify risk factors, disparities, and outcomes associated with delayed and missed VTE diagnosis in...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the CFDA 93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program is funding the development and testing of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to improve iron deficiency screening and management for pregnant individuals at high risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Specifically, the $118,089 award will support a two-phase project at Massachusetts...