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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise FHIR Cooperative Agreement Program

Program Information

Popular name

IHE FHIR

Program Number

93.691

Program objective

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology (health IT) and the electronic exchange of health information. Created in 2004 through Executive Order and legislatively mandated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009, ONC is at the forefront of the federal government’s health IT efforts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is aimed ensuring consistency in the development of implementation guides for the standards necessary to achieve interoperability among health IT systems and to reach the milestones identified in the 21st Century Cures Act. The overarching goal is to advance the implementation consistency and readiness of the current and new versions of Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) technical implementation guides that include Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) technical standards for adoption by the healthcare industry.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

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Additional program information

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

45 CFR Part 75

  1. HR 6157 - Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019. Pub. L. 115, 245, Division B, Title II.
  2. H.R. 1865 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Pub. L. 116- 94, Division A-DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN.
  3. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Division H, Title II.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Federal
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Health Professional
  • Local
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Small business
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • State
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources