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ONC has awarded $60 million in research grants through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to four renowned institutions including Mayo Clinic for healthcare IT.

"ONC launched a major initiative aimed at promoting research and innovation. Four renowned institutions - Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - were awarded research grants totaling $60 million through the SHARP program," said David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Each institution's research projects will identify short-term and long-term solutions to address key challenges, including ensuring the security of healthcare IT (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), enabling patient-centered cognitive support for clinicians (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), making progress toward new health care application and network-platform architectures (Harvard University), and promoting the secondary use of EHR data while maintaining privacy and security (Mayo Clinic of Medicine).

These projects will be conducted by multidisciplinary teams led by recognized public and private sector leaders in health, including  researchers, the technology industry, and health care providers. The results of these diverse teams' work will be translated into practice to produce innovative healthcare IT solutions that can be deployed nationwide.

"The SHARP grants represent an important investment in the long-term future of healthcare for our nation. I am excited by the promise of these projects to fundamentally change the trajectory of healthcare IT in support of better health and care," added Blumenthal.

Source : ONC

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