- ONC Promotes Public Health IT Workforce Development, Diversity
- Healthcare Mobility Device Diversity Key Challenge
Diverse innovators, including Mount Sinai’s faculty, staff, and students, could receive as much as $33,000 in funding, varying on the achievement of milestones, the press release stated.
However, applicants will not qualify if they have previously received substantial funding for commercialization, Mount Sinai mentioned.
MSIP aims to boost funding access, regardless of field, to bring innovations to life and improve health and well-being for all people.
i3 Prism is the most recent addition to Mount Sinai’s i3 which stands for “innovation, inflection, and impact”, a family of funds that supports innovation and advances Mount Sinai technologies.
For the last few years, diversity has been top of the mind within the healthcare industry.
In late June 2021, ONC allotted $80 million of ARP funding to establish a workforce development program that aims to train the next generation of health IT talent to equip the nation for future public health challenges.
“Representation is important – particularly when we are deploying technology to tackle our most pressing healthcare challenges. Ensuring that diverse representation is better reflected all throughout our healthcare system is a priority for the Biden-Harris administration,” Xavier Becerra, HHS Secretary, said in a public statement.
Funded through the American Rescue Plan, the workforce development program intends to train more than 4,000 individuals over a four-year period, ONC said.
The federal agency has specifically called on minority-serving institutions (MSIs) such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) to apply for the funding.
“With this funding, we will be able to train and create new opportunities for thousands of minorities long underrepresented in our public health informatics and technology fields,” Becerra continued.
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