The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is providing new funding for innovations in AI data quality and technology adoption for behavioral health.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
In a new special emphasis announcement under the ongoing Flagship Accelerator Health IT initiative, ONC said it will fund FY 2024, seeking applications related to two distinct priorities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
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Develop innovative ways to evaluate and improve the quality of healthcare data used by artificial intelligence tools in healthcare. This area of interest focuses on developing scalable solutions to evaluate and improve the quality of healthcare data available in electronic health record technologies used by healthcare companies. AI tool.
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Accelerate the adoption of health IT in behavioral health. This area of interest focuses on the design, development, and testing of lightweight health IT solutions that can enhance health IT capabilities in behavioral health settings and improve care coordination between behavioral health and clinical health care environments.
Earlier this year, ONC published the HTI-1 final rule, which establishes transparency requirements for AI and other predictive algorithms incorporated into certified health IT products. receive.
Meanwhile, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration also recently launched the Behavioral Health Information Technology Initiative, which aims to invest more than $20 million in SAMHSA funds to enhance health IT in behavioral health care settings.
According to ONC, the new LEAP funding in Health IT aims to support both of those goals. ONC said it expects to grant a cooperative agreement worth up to $1 million for each area of interest.
Applicants are encouraged to review NAP-AX-22-001 at Grants.gov to learn more.
BIGGER TREND
ONC first launched the LEAP project in Healthcare IT several years ago to help drive innovation in many pressing areas.
According to ONC, the goal is to “address the well-documented and rapidly emerging challenges to the development, use or advancement of well-designed, interoperable and scalable health IT extend”.
The agency said it is most interested in new approaches that can “continue to develop a new generation of health IT tools and inform the development, implementation and improvement of standards, health IT methods and techniques to enable widespread adoption of health IT tools to improve health outcomes.” .”
Many of the awardees have focused on interoperability, with projects surrounding health information exchange innovation including advanced FHIR applications and USCDI data enhancements.
ON PROFILE
“These two areas of interest are natural extensions of ONC’s work,” said Steve Posnack, deputy national coordinator for health information technology. “We look forward to receiving innovative applications and seeing the impact created by the selected awardees.”
Mike Miliard is the executive editor of Healthcare IT News
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