ONC’s Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program

SHARP awardees are currently conducting research along the following areas:
(Each Area lists the ONC Web page as well as direct link to the program’s Web site.)

AREA ONE: Security and Health Information Technology – “The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is helping develop technologies and policy recommendations that reduce privacy and security risks and increase public trust.”
http://sharps.org

AREA TWO: Patient-Centered Cognitive Support – “Innovative cognitive research is being led by the University of Texas, Houston to harness the power of health IT to integrate and support physician reasoning and decision-making as providers care for patients.”
http://sharpc.org

AREA THREE: Health Care Application and Network Design – “Harvard University is leading platform based research to create new and improved system designs that facilitate information exchange while ensuring the accuracy, privacy, and security of electronic health information.”
http://www.smartplatforms.org
SMART Apps Challenge

AREA FOUR: Secondary Use of EHR Information – Mayo Clinic of Medicine is developing strategies to improve the overall quality of healthcare by leveraging existing EHR data to generate new, environmentally appropriate, best practice suggestions.
http://sharpn.org

Health portion of Federal Initiative on Open Data
HealthData.gov
HealthData.gov is a one-stop resource for the growing ecosystem of innovators who are turning data into new applications, services, and insights that can help improve health.
http://www.healthdata.gov