Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are two of four institutions to each win a $15 million grant from the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects Program.
Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the program supports research to break through barriers against the adoption of health information technology and to accelerate “meaningful use” of health IT to support a high-performing health care system.
Mayo Clinic’s medical college will use its grant to put in place a collaborative, interdisciplinary program of research that addresses short- and long-term challenges, and develop and put in place a cooperative program between health IT stakeholders–researchers, industry, health care providers, and others–to translate the research findings into practice.
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Illinois University will use its grant to harness the power of health IT to enhance and support clinicians’ reasoning and decision making, rather than forcing them to think like machines.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Harvard University also received $15 million awards for a total of $60 million-worth of cooperative agreements to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of the nation’s health care through advanced information technology.
