Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology

Objective

The goal of the LEAP in Health IT funding opportunity is to address well-documented and fast emerging challenges inhibiting the development, use, or advancement of well-designed, interoperable health IT, which are scalable across the healthcare industry. Solutions are expected to further a new generation of health IT tools and inform the development, implementation, and refinement of health IT standards, methods, and techniques towards enabling widespread adoption of health IT tools to improve healthcare outcomes.

Who Can Apply

• Local
• State
• Territorial
• Tribal
• Nonprofit Organization
• Not-for-Profit Organization
• For-Profit Organization

Public or non-profit private institutions, such as a university, college, or a faith-based or community-based organization; units of local or state government, eligible agencies of the federal government, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (federally recognized, other than federally recognized, and tribally designated organizations).

Assistance Types

• Cooperative Agreement

Program Contact

carmel.halloun@hhs.gov
202-720-2919