Electronic Medical Record Enhancement
North Dakota Health and Human Services
At a glance
What this opportunity covers
Funding for electronic medical record improvements in eligible rural care settings.
Funding & applicants
Key dates
Tribal Nations and Native organizations
The listing names Tribal or Native applicants as eligible.
“Non-federally operated Indian Health Service facilities and tribally run 638 health facilities”
From the RFA
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Who can apply
• Critical access hospitals • Rural federally qualified health centers • Rural hospital systems • Non-federally operated Indian Health Service facilities and tribally run 638 health facilities • Long-term care facilities Please note: Successful applicants will not be eligible to participate in future RHTP funding opportunities relating to electronic medical record replacement. Projects funded under the RHTP program must be sustainable. Future RHTP funding cannot be used to replace funding previously awarded through the program. Grant funding for new and replacement electronic medical records will be available in Year 2. The remainder of Year 1 funding designated for new and replacement 4… Read the full section
electronic medical records will support a planning period to review new EMR sustainability efforts, functionality and compliance with 2 CFR Part 200 procurement requirements, as well as to engage in successful cooperative purchasing of an electronic medical record product. 4) Available Funds and Timeline This is a competitive funding opportunity application process for Year 1 RHTP funding; additional application processes for the Electronic Medical Record Enhancement funding opportunity are expected to be offered in future years of the RHTP. The operating period will start upon execution of the agreement, with all required approvals and signatures. The operating period will end on September 30, 2027, and all funds must be expended by this date. All goods and services purchased under this award must be fully implemented by the end of the operating period. For this funding opportunity, one application per organization should be submitted. If an applicant has multiple strategies pertaining to this funding opportunity, these should be numbered in order of priority in the narrative and budget. Up to $10 million in federal funding is available in Year 1. An estimated 20 awards of approximately $500,000 each are expected to be made in this funding opportunity. The first strategy must be within a reasonable amount of the estimated award value of $ 500,000 and noted on a separate tab in the budget template. Applicants may request funds for additional strategies totaling up to 5% above the total dollar value of this funding opportunity. Each additional strategy must be noted on a separate tab in the budget template. If an applicant has multiple strategies and requests additional funds, the proposal must align with the scope of the funding opportunity and applicants are encouraged to consider the feasibility of completing the proposed work within the operating period, no later than September 30, 2027. Organizations composed of more than one business entity that submit an application on behalf of multiple business entities will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The project structure must ensure the organization submitting the application does not function as a pass-through entity or issue subawards to individual facility locations. Projects of this nature should follow a hub-and-spoke care model. Each participating
Funding
1) Background As part of Public Law 119-21, Congress established the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to help rural communities reimagine their health care delivery systems and improve health outcomes.
Program geography
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