CDC has awarded a $2 million, two-year grant to the Association of Public Health Laboratories to provide technical assistance to expand the electronic exchange of laboratory data, Healthcare IT News reports.
The grant will support technical aid to state health departments, public health laboratories and hospitals to help them link disparate laboratory reporting systems.
The funding comes from a cooperative agreement through the health IT provisions of the 2009 federal economic stimulus package, also known as the HITECH Act.
Paul Jarris, executive director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, noted that APHL has experience on projects to develop and deploy IT architecture capabilities for the electronic exchange of laboratory information (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 7/6).