University-Based Training Programs ($32 million)

The University-Based Training programs will produce trained professionals for vital, highly specialized health IT roles. Most trainees in these programs will complete intensive courses of study in 12 months or less and receive a university-issued certificate of advanced training. Other trainees supported by these grants will study toward masters' degrees.

The nine recipients are:

• The Trustees of Columbia University, New York City, N.Y. - $3,786,677
• University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing, Denver, Colo. - $2,622,186
• Duke University, Durham, N.C. - $2,167,121
• George Washington University, District of Columbia - $4,612,313
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. - $1,406,469
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.- $3,752,512
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. - $5,145,705
• Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore.- $3,085,812
• Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas- $5,421,205

Competency Examination Program ($6 million)

This program will support the development and initial administration of a set of health IT competency examinations. The program will create an objective measure to assess basic competency for individuals trained in short-term, non degree health IT programs and for members of the workforce seeking to demonstrate their competency in certain health IT workforce roles.

The sole awards goes to:

• Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Va. - $6 million

Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program ($60 million)

The SHARP program recognizes the critical importance of research to support improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare by creating "breakthrough" advances in information technology. The SHARP program targets four areas where improvements in technology are needed.

The four SHARP award recipients, their areas of research focus and funding are:

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill. - Security of Health Information Technology - Developing security and risk mitigation policies and the technologies necessary to build and preserve the public trust as Health IT systems gain widespread use. $15 million.
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas - Patient-Centered Cognitive Support - Harnessing the power of Health IT so that it integrates with, enhances and supports clinicians' reasoning and decision-making. $15 million.
• President and Fellows of Harvard College, Boston, Mass. - Healthcare Application and Network Platform Architectures - Developing new and improved architectures that will leverage benefits of today's architecture and focus on the flexibility and scalability needs for the future to address significant increases in capture, storage and analysis of data. $15 million.
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. - Secondary Use of EHR Data- Strategies to make use of data that will be stored in EHRs for improving the overall quality of health care, while maintaining data privacy and security. $15 million.