Telehealth Funding Opportunities
Technology-Enabled Collaborative Learning Program
HRSA’s Office for the Advancement of Telehealth will invest approximately $3,800,000 for up to eight new cooperative agreements. Awarded entities will evaluate, develop, and expand the use of technology-enabled learning models to build capacity, improve retention of health care providers, and increase access to services. Eligible applicants include entities that provide, or support the provision of, health care services in rural areas, frontier areas, health professional shortage areas, or medically underserved areas, or to medically underserved populations or Native Americans, including Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.
Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Application Dates: July 1, 2024- August 2, 2024
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announces the opportunity to apply for New Access Points (NAP) funding under the Health Center Program. The purpose of this funding is to support new health center service delivery sites to expand affordable, accessible, and high-quality primary health care for underserved communities and populations. In this NOFO, such sites are referred to as new access points. Award recipients will use NAP funding to provide primary health care services at one or more new access points.
Funding Agency: HRSA
Application Dates: May 30-Aug 15 2024
AHRQ Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare Safety
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the safety, effectiveness, efficiency, accessibility and affordability of healthcare. However, as with most technologies, its potential must be balanced by identifying and mitigating possible risks for patient harm and user burden. Understanding the critical need for further examination on this topic, AHRQ has posted a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) that invites grant applications that support healthcare safety by determining:
- Whether and how certain breakthrough uses of AI systems can affect patient safety
- How AI systems can be safely implemented and used
The NOFO will focus on assessing the impact, both positive and negative, of actual AI deployments in healthcare delivery systems and how that impact can be affected by implementation and use strategies. The NOFO will not support the development of new AI systems. For more information on this opportunity, including details on the focus of the NOFO, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-24-261.html
Funding Agency: AHRQ
Due Date: September 25th, 2024
This funding opportunity supports health services research projects, including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Rural and frontier areas are priority populations.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Application Dates: October 10, 2026
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
The Hearst Foundations assist leading regional hospitals, medical centers and specialized medical institutions providing access to healthcare for high-need populations. In response to the shortage of healthcare professionals necessary to meet the country’s evolving healthcare demands, the Foundations also fund programs designed to enhance skills and increase the number of practitioners and educators across roles in healthcare. The Foundations also support medical research and the development of young investigators to help create a broad and enduring impact on the nation’s health. The board meets to approve grants in March, June, September and December. The average time from proposal submission to grant award is six months. Click Here to Apply.
Funding Agency: Hearst Foundations
Application Dates: Accepted year round.
Three recent enacted laws that, in whole or in part, address the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic provided both direct and indirect broadband funding for American Indian tribes, tribal colleges and universities, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service (collectively, “tribal entities”). They are
- the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, P.L. 116-136;
- Division N of Title IX of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA, 2021), P.L. 116-260; and
- the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), P.L. 117-2.
This In Focus lists major broadband programs funded by these three laws as well as potential additional funding in subsequently proposed legislation.
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