The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHCRQ) announced a series of Improving Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology grants.

Exploration and Development Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT)

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support short-term preparatory, pilot or feasibility studies that will inform larger scale real world health IT implementation and use or the conduct of more comprehensive health IT implementation research. Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), and Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).  Full details: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-269.html

Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology

The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHCRQ) announced the Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT).  The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support a wide variety of research designs in order to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care through the implementation and use of health IT. These designs include: small pilot and feasibility or self-contained health IT research projects; secondary data analysis of health IT research; and economic (prospective or retrospective) analyses of health IT implementation and use. Through economic analyses estimates of health IT implementation and use costs and benefits will be generated.  Eligible applicants include: state governments, county governments, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, native American tribal governments, eligible agencies of federal government, faith-based or community-based organizations; Indian/Native American tribal governments. Full details: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-268.html