The eHealth Initiative Foundation provides seed funding and support to multi-stakeholder collaboratives within communities (both geographic and non-geographic) who are using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) and other information technology tools to drive improvements in healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency.
In September 2005, the eHealth Initiative Foundation issued a call for proposals for the second round of awards under the Connecting Communities for Better Health Program conducted in cooperation with HRSA/OAT. The purpose of this year’s awards program is to improve the health and healthcare of Americans by stimulating the creation of sustainable health information exchange capabilities across the U.S. The award program will provide funding and technical support to a set of “learning laboratories” led by multi-stakeholder collaboratives engaged in health information exchange, who are experimenting with the development of models for sustainability for their health information exchange efforts. Click here for the 2005 Call for Proposals.
On October 21, 2003, the Foundation publicly released a request for capabilities statement (RFC) to which 134 organizations responded. For more information on these and other community projects, please see the Community Directory section of this website.
The RFC responses were reviewed and rated by a Technical Review Committee comprised of 11 health care informatics and HIE experts. From the pool of 134 responses, the Foundation invited 48 of the highest rated organizations to submit responses to a request for proposals by February 17, 2004. The RFP responses were also reviewed and rated by the Technical Reveiw Committee.
On July 21, 2004, the Foundation for eHealth Initiative announced the selection of nine communities that are being awarded funding -- collectively totaling over $2 million -- through the CCBH program to pursue local projects in electronic health information exchange.
The nine CCBH awardees are pioneers of electronic health information exchange and represent a broad range of community project models. CCBH awardees will test and evaluate strategies that will help address important challenges related to the use of HIT and the implementation of health information exchange. To learn more about each of the awards, please click on the project titles listed below.
Colorado Health Information Exchange (COHIE)- [Denver, CO]
Indiana Health Information Exchange (Central Indiana Healthcare Collaboration) - [Indianapolis, IN]
MA-SHARE MedsInfo e-Prescribing Initiative [Waltham, MA]
MD/DC Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology - [Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area]
Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange [Santa Barbara, CA]
Taconic Health Information Network and Community - [Fishkill, NY]
Tri-Cities TN-VA Care Data Exchange - [Kingsport, TN]
Whatcom County e-Prescribing Project - [Bellingham, WA]
Wisconsin Health Information Exchange - [Milwaukee, WI]
