National Institutes of Health

Description

Purpose. This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA), Public Law 111-5, invites Research Project Cooperative Agreement (UC4) applications from organizations that propose to study the impact of clinical decision support systems in disseminating and increasing the consideration of comparative effectiveness research findings. The purpose of this FOA is to implement and assess real-time decision support systems, which if effective, could be broadly adopted. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the UC4 grant mechanism Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. NIBIB intends to commit up to $3,000,000 total funds under this FOA. We anticipate that 2 awards may be made for fiscal year 2010, pending the number and quality of applications and availability of funds.

Who can apply

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Special district governments
• Independent school districts
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
• Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
• Private institutions of higher education
• For-profit organizations other than small businesses
• Small businesses
• Others

Contact

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