Strengthening the Technical Advancement & Readiness of Public Health via Health Information Exchange Program

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (CFDA 93.462) funded 23 grant awards totaling $12.9 million between September 2020 and January 2021, with the most recent award disbursed on January 15, 2021—over five years ago.

The program funds health information exchange (HIE) projects that strengthen public health agency capabilities at state and local levels. Awarded grants have supported specific public health use cases: COVID-19 immunization data exchange and sharing, bi-directional connectivity between public health laboratories and HIE platforms, contact tracing data quality improvement, regional decision-support toolkits powered by HIEs, and electronic hospital reporting for public health surveillance. Recipients span multiple states including New York, Michigan, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, Delaware, and Kansas.

The assistance-type mix is heavily skewed toward Cooperative Agreements, which comprise 96 percent of awards (22 agreements) with a single Project Grant (4 percent) representing the outlier. The sole funder throughout the portfolio is the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, concentrating 100 percent of both award count and federal dollars.

Award magnitudes show sharp disparity. The January 2021 COVID-19 Immunization Data Exchange, Advancement and Sharing (IDEAS) Program Project Grant obligated $9.9 million—roughly 77 percent of the program's total federal funding. The remaining 22 Cooperative Agreements ranged between $105 thousand and $247 thousand per award, with most clustered around $123 thousand to $124 thousand.

No grant opportunities are currently open. The most recent solicitation (COVID-C3-20-002) closed on September 1, 2020. The program does not have an active posting on Grants.gov or GrantSolutions.gov for new competitive rounds as of October 2026. Applicant eligibility in the last posted opportunity was limited to "Other" applicant types; detailed eligibility criteria are not preserved in the source.

This program appears dormant from a funding perspective. The five-year gap between the most recent award and today, combined with absence of current solicitation activity, suggests the program is not actively accepting new applications.