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Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program

The SHARP Program funds research focused on achieving breakthrough advances to address well-documented problems that have impeded adoption of health IT and accelerating progress towards achieving nationwide meaningful use of health IT in support of a high-performing, continuously-learning health care system.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded $60 million in cooperative agreements for the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program.

The SHARP program seeks to support improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare, through advanced information technology.

The research projects supported by the SHARP program will focus on solving current and expected future challenges that represent barriers to adoption and meaningful use of health IT. These projects will focus on areas where "breakthrough" advances are needed to realize the full potential of health IT.


"The evolving ecosystem of health IT will be further expanded by modular architectures, open APIs and the applications that can engage them. This development will dramatically expand the market for health IT by offering applications that can meet any niche and any need - from individual consumers to small practices to large organizations—thereby making the transformative power of health IT felt more fully and broadly."
--Aneesh Chopra, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, on SMART Platforms.

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