Advancing Evidence into Practice through Shared, Interoperable Clinical Decision Support Resources (U18) | PA 18 792

Opportunity Information: Apply for PA 18 792

The Advancing Evidence into Practice through Shared, Interoperable Clinical Decision Support Resources (U18) funding opportunity (PA 18-792) is a discretionary grant program from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) designed to speed up the real-world adoption of proven clinical evidence by improving how clinical decision support (CDS) is created, shared, and implemented across health care settings. The core idea is to fund innovative research projects that take evidence (for example, guidelines, best practices, and validated clinical knowledge) and move it into routine care through CDS tools that can be reused, distributed, and run in different health IT environments rather than being rebuilt from scratch for each organization. The mechanism is a U18 cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial federal involvement during the project, meaning awardees should expect active collaboration with AHRQ in refining aims, coordinating activities, and ensuring the work aligns with broader national priorities around interoperable CDS.

This FOA is focused on shared, interoperable CDS resources, which typically means CDS artifacts or components that can be implemented across multiple electronic health record systems and care delivery organizations with minimal rework. In practice, that emphasis points applicants toward approaches such as standardized representations of clinical knowledge, computable guidelines, interoperable CDS services, and implementation strategies that support adoption at scale. The research angle is important: the opportunity is not just about building a tool, but about studying and demonstrating better methods for disseminating evidence into practice through these interoperable resources, including the barriers, facilitators, and measurable effects on care processes and outcomes.

Eligibility is broad and spans many common domestic applicant types, including state, county, and local governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)); for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); and small businesses. It also includes Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) and Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments). The FOA explicitly calls out additional eligible applicant categories such as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, regional organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and Indian/Native American tribal governments that are not federally recognized.

At the same time, there are clear restrictions related to foreign participation. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities classified as foreign institutions are not eligible to apply, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible to apply as applicants. However, foreign components, as defined in the HHS Grants Policy Statement, may still be involved in a limited way, specifically as members of consortia or as subcontractors, which means an otherwise eligible U.S.-based applicant could include foreign expertise or capacity through partnerships without making the foreign organization the primary applicant.

Key administrative details include the funding activity category of Health and the CFDA number 93.226. The award ceiling is listed as $500,000. The original closing date provided is January 27, 2020, and the FOA record shows a creation date of May 21, 2018. Overall, the opportunity is aimed at organizations that can combine clinical evidence expertise, informatics and interoperability know-how, and implementation research capabilities to produce CDS resources that are shareable and usable across settings, with the broader goal of making evidence-based care easier to deliver reliably at the point of care.

• The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Advancing Evidence into Practice through Shared, Interoperable Clinical Decision Support Resources (U18)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.226.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-05-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-01-27. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: 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 tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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