The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced a pilot funding project, the Market R&D Pilot Challenge, which will distribute $300,000 in pilot funding and will match developing health IT companies with healthcare organizations.
ONC will facilitate matchmaking among companies and healthcare organizations, which will submit joint proposals for development and testing of the proposed innovation. Up to six teams will have the opportunity to win $50,000 for their project.
Matchmaking will begin in early December and will run through mid-January 2015. Proposals will be submitted March 2, 2015, and the winners of the challenge will be announced Apr. 30, 2015. Pilot studies will run between six and nine months and will be complete January 2016.
Pilot proposals will be considered across four domains: clinical environments, public health/community environments, consumer health and research and patient data collection, with ONC priority areas for proposals including: medication management, standards/data formats, care coordination/transitions of care, underserved communities, interoperability and exchange, blue button, patient portals and patient-generated health data.
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