Closing the Gap Between Standards Development and Implementation

$7.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2024

Agency: Immed Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
Assistance: Cooperative Agreements
CFDA number: 93.826
What it does: To establish a mechanism for ongoing long-term collaborative engagement with Health Level 7 International (HL7) in order to support advancements in the technical standards necessary to achieve interoperability among health IT systems, and to reach the milestones identified in the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.
Who benefits: The beneficiaries will include all health care organizations and patients using electronic health records.
Who applies: Sole source award to Health Level 7 International
Authorized by: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, Pub. L. No. 115-31, Division H, Title II
Program site: http://www.healthit.gov ↗

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How it's paid: Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
Some recipients aren't itemized: For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
Awards, counted once: An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
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$7.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2024

Agency: Immed Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
Assistance: Cooperative Agreements
CFDA number: 93.826
What it does: To establish a mechanism for ongoing long-term collaborative engagement with Health Level 7 International (HL7) in order to support advancements in the technical standards necessary to achieve interoperability among health IT systems, and to reach the milestones identified in the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.
Who benefits: The beneficiaries will include all health care organizations and patients using electronic health records.
Who applies: Sole source award to Health Level 7 International
Authorized by: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, Pub. L. No. 115-31, Division H, Title II
Program site: http://www.healthit.gov ↗

By dollars committed.

Committed through this program: Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
How it's paid: Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
Some recipients aren't itemized: For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
Awards, counted once: An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
The colored bars: Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments