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Print Edition StoriesThursday, April 8, 2010
Harvard, Children’s Hospital share $15M health IT grant
By Mass High Tech staff
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Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have received a $15 million grant to lead research and development into healthcare information technology. The grant is one of four awards, from the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects program, intended to find solutions for health care IT use and adoption.
Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the grant will support a four-year project to create an “iPhone-like” health IT application. Isaac Kohane and Kenneth Mandl, both from the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program and Harvard Medical School, will lead the project. The application is referred to as having a “SMArt” (Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies) architecture that will create essentially an iTunes App Store for health, according to a news release from the two organizations.
In February, Massachusetts pulled in $25.6 million in federal funding for work in health information technology, according to an announcement by Gov. Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation. The funding was divided between electronic health records implementation and development of a secure health information network for the commonwealth.
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