The deadline for applications is February 16, 2010, and full guidelines can be accessed here.
The Department of Health and Human Services will award approximately 55 grants, (with an award ceiling of $250,000), to collegiate schools of nursing, academic health centers, and other private or public nonprofit entities accredited by a recognized body or bodies or State agency, approved for the purpose of nursing education by the Secretary of Education.
The deadline for applications is February 16, 2010, and full guidelines can be accessed here.
The deadline for applications is February 16, 2010, and full guidelines can be accessed here.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced two new healthcare information technology grants to support workforce development. According to their December 23, 2009 press release:
"Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the grants will work to help strengthen and support the health IT workforce. The new grant programs will award $32 million to establish university-based certificate and advanced degree health IT training programs and $6 million dollars to develop a health IT competency examination program. These awards, together with the previous announced $80 million in workforce program grants (Community College Consortia on Nov. 24, 2009, and Curriculum Development Centers on Dec. 15, 2009), recognize the critical importance of developing a well-trained health IT workforce to support the adoption and meaningful use of health IT."
"Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the grants will work to help strengthen and support the health IT workforce. The new grant programs will award $32 million to establish university-based certificate and advanced degree health IT training programs and $6 million dollars to develop a health IT competency examination program. These awards, together with the previous announced $80 million in workforce program grants (Community College Consortia on Nov. 24, 2009, and Curriculum Development Centers on Dec. 15, 2009), recognize the critical importance of developing a well-trained health IT workforce to support the adoption and meaningful use of health IT."
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has opened multiple grant opportunities to support training and curriculum development for the emerging Health IT sector. Four year institutions interested in expanding or creating a Health IT professional program may want to explore the new workforce training grant, due January 25, 2010, that makes $32 million available for shorter-term (one year or less) courses and certifications.
HHS will also grant approximately four organizations awards from a $60 million allocation to focus on Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects, examining advanced breakthroughs and more effective adoption of technologies through cooperative agreements.
To learn more about these and other HHS Health IT initiatives under the Recovery Act, visit their website at http://healthit.hhs.gov.
HHS will also grant approximately four organizations awards from a $60 million allocation to focus on Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects, examining advanced breakthroughs and more effective adoption of technologies through cooperative agreements.
To learn more about these and other HHS Health IT initiatives under the Recovery Act, visit their website at http://healthit.hhs.gov.
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