SHARP
Read updates from ONC’s SHARP program, which supports the discovery of breakthrough research findings that will accelerate the nationwide use of electronic health records and other forms of health information technology.
Latest Blog Posts
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A SHARP Milestone – A New Innovation Challenge
Today one of the recipients of the ONC’s Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) announced a major milestone . Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, leaders of the Healthcare Applications and Networking Platforms SHARP award, announced a major breakthrough having developed a first of kind platform architecture to support a flexible health information technology (IT) environment and promote innovation.
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Health IT Challenges and the Future of Healthcare
Getting health IT “right” is difficult. Thousands of brilliant, creative and industrious people around the world have been working for several decades to realize the vision of making the technology a companion to care providers and patients, helping them make better decisions in support of better health.