Strategic Health IT Advanced Research (SHARP) Projects Program: Facts

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Facts-At-A-Glance

• The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded $60 million in cooperative agreements for the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program.
  

• The SHARP program seeks to support improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare, through advanced information technology.
  

• The research projects supported by the SHARP program will focus on solving current and expected future challenges that represent barriers to adoption and meaningful use of health IT. These projects will focus on areas where “breakthrough” advances are needed to realize the full potential of health IT.
  

• Each awardee in the SHARP Program will implement a focused research project in one of the following four areas where breakthrough advances are needed to address barriers to the adoption of health IT to meet the goal of making electronic health records (EHRs) available for all Americans by 2014.
  

1. Security of Health Information Technology: This research area addresses the challenges of developing security and risk mitigation policies and the technologies necessary to build and preserve the public trust as health IT systems become ubiquitous.
                      Awardee: Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (#10510624)
2. Patient-Centered Cognitive Support: This research area addresses the challenge of harnessing the power of health IT to integrate with, enhance, and support clinicians’ reasoning and decision-making, rather than forcing them into a mode of thinking that is natural to machines but not to people.
                      Awardee: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (#10510592)
3. Healthcare Application and Network Platform Architectures: This research area focuses on the development of new and improved architectures that are necessary to achieve electronic exchange and use of health information in a secure, private, and accurate manner.
                     Awardee: Harvard University (#10510924)
4. Secondary Use of EHR Data: This research area focuses on strategies to make use of data that will be stored in EHRs for improving the overall quality of health care, while maintaining privacy and security of the data.
                     Awardee: Mayo Clinic of Medicine (#10510949)

• Projects will be guided by a two-part mission:
  
  • Implementing a collaborative, interdisciplinary program of research addressing short- and long-term challenges in their respective focus area;
  • Developing and implementing a cooperative program between health IT stakeholders – researchers, industry, health care providers, and others – to transition the research findings into practice.
    

• All results of research will be transitioned into practice as soon as possible. Projects will develop technology solutions in their selected area of research and make information solutions available to the health IT market, in addition to making research results available through publication.
• Each cooperative agreement has a four-year project period. Progress of each project will be evaluated regularly.
  

Additional information is available at http://HealthIT.HHS.Gov/Programs/SHARP

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第一次看到HIT这么大的科研经费立项，这也说明HIT正在被主流科学界接受。