Physicians Foundation grants - Leadership and Health IT

[From Philanthropy News Digest] The Physicians Foundation is committed to helping bring the voice of physicians to national-level conversations and debate on issues that affect practicing physicians and their patients.

Through a new grantmaking program, the foundation will support new approaches and models to provide for the ongoing professional development of physicians as leaders in the healthcare arena. Specifically, the foundation will fund innovative programs for physician leadership development and skills-building activities, which may include the development, evaluation, and implementation of new programs, curriculum and content, and program resources. The foundation also will consider funding projects that help organizations develop the internal capacity to do this work on an ongoing basis. The program will not fund existing continuing medical education offerings or other clinical education.

Health Information Technology in Practice: Toolkit Grants initiative is to support physicians' adoption of certified electronic health record systems through the development of tools and resources. Through this initiative, the foundation will make grants to support projects focused on the development, testing, and dissemination of practical, efficient tools and resources to aid in physicians' adoption and meaningful use of certified EHRs. Projects can be focused specifically on practice readiness or selection and implementation of technology, or projects can be more broadly designed to address a variety of needs. Tools and educational resources should be geared towards small practices (twenty-five physicians or fewer). Products developed as part of these grants must be replicable in terms of reasonable financial cost and efficient use of human resources. In addition, projects should complement and/or support the work of the newly established Regional Extension Centers.

Applicant organizations must be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations or educational institutions located in the United States. Private foundations as defined in IRC section 509 (a) are not eligible.