Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
Requests for Proposals
To implement the Department's health IT strategy, HHS issued four requests for proposals (RFPs). A fact sheet for the four RFPs [PDF - 111KB] is available. Brief summaries of the RFPs, including links to the solicitation documents are below.
Develop, create prototypes for, and evaluate a conformance certification process for health IT, including the infrastructure or network components through which health IT systems interoperate.
More information on the Compliance Certification Process RFP.
Assess and develop plans to address variations in organization-level business policies and state laws that affect privacy and security practices, including those related to HIPAA, which may pose challenges to interoperable health information exchange.
More information on the Privacy and Security Assessment RFP.
Develop, and create prototypes for, and evaluate a nationwide health information network (NHIN) architecture for widespread health information exchange that can be used to test specialized network functions, security protections and monitoring, and demonstrate feasibility of scalable models.
More information on the NHIN Demonstrations RFP.
Last revised: October 14, 2005
What's New
Third Nationwide Health Information Network Forum: Prototypes and Business Models, January 25-26, 2007. more details
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Click here to find out more about the American Health Information Community workgroup meetings.
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HHS Announces Award of NHIN Prototype Contracts full story
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Health IT (HIT) Adoption Initiative Announced full story
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