The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), invites eligible entities for its Health Information Systems Strengthening for Improved Public Health Care and Program Management in Haiti under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

The purpose of this NOFO is to improve health outcomes in Haiti by developing a Patient Centered, Integrated HIS focused-on continuity and quality of care while supporting public health surveillance and response mechanisms.

Improvements of vital statistics registry system and linkage to existing health information systems can facilitate monitoring of health outcomes of natality and mortality, with a systematic classification of cause of death, reducing poor health outcomes linked to systemic problems in the health system.

Program Strategies

• Strategy 1. EMR. Develop, refine, and support a coordinated expansion of the GOH-owned EMR, Lab systems and IT infrastructure to PHC public sector sites in all 10 geographic departments
• Strategy 2. National Patient Registry (NPR) and Vital Statistics. Create a NPR of uniquely identified patients that encompasses facility and community-based interventions along with core vital statistics
• Strategy 3. Data use. Develop innovative, comprehensive and automated data analysis and reporting tools on all supported IT applications to improve evidence-based and data-driven HIV programming
• Strategy 4: National Health Information Exchange System (NHIE). Develop a Single interoperability layer (SIL) for the sharing of data between all health informatics system (existing or future) in use in country

Funding Information

• Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $ 4,000,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligibility Category:
  • 99 (Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity).
• Additional Eligibility Category:
  • Government Organizations:
  • State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)
  • Local governments or their bona fide agents
  • Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
  • State controlled institutions of higher education
  • American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
  • Non-government Organizations
  • American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
  • Other
  • Ministries of Health
• Additional Information on Eligibility:
  • Government Organizations:
    • Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States)
  • Non-government Organizations:
    • Alaska Native health corporations
    • Tribal epidemiology centers
    • Urban Indian health organizations
    • Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
    • Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
    • Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research)
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Community-based organizations
  • Faith-based organizations (FBOs)
  • For-profit organizations (other than small business)
  • Hospitals
  • Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
  • All Other

For more information, visit Grants.gov.