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- August 13, 2013
Oregon delays wide access to Obamacare insurance exchange
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreThe online insurance exchange that Oregon established under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law will not allow residents to sign up for coverage on their own when enrollment begins nationwide on Oct. 1, state officials say. The state is the first to say it won’t be open for all comers by...
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Building health places: Three models in Colorado
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreHealthy Places: Designing an Active Colorado is a five-year, $4.5 million initiative sponsored by the Colorado Health Foundation (CHF). The goal of Colorado’s Healthy Places initiative is to reduce and prevent obesity by fostering a built environment where it is easy to walk, play, and engage in daily activities...
- August 13, 2013
Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Key design decisions for state-based exchanges
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreThe Affordable Care Act requires the establishment of new health insurance marketplaces — known as exchanges — in every state by October 1, 2013. This report examines key design decisions made by the 17 states and the District of Columbia that chose to establish a state-based exchange. The analysis...
- August 13, 2013
Colorado Health Service Corps Loan Repayment application cycle opens September 1st
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreThe Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) Loan Repayment Program fall 2013 application cycle will open September 1, 2013. The application cycle is open for one month, closing on September 30, 2013. Don’t let your providers miss their opportunity for loan repayment! The CHSC provides loan repayment to fully trained...
- August 13, 2013
NIMHD social, behavioral, health services, and policy research on minority health and health disparities (R01) grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: RFA-MD-13-006 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit innovative social, behavioral, health services, and policy research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the elimination of health disparities. Projects may involve primary data collection or secondary analysis of existing datasets. Projects that...
- August 13, 2013
NINDS phase III investigator-initiated efficacy clinical trials (U01) grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: PAR-13-278 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide a vehicle for submitting grant applications to conduct multi-site, randomized, controlled, Phase 3 clinical trials to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The trials may address questions within the mission and...
- August 13, 2013
Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing in the biomedical sciences (U54) grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: RFA-HG-13-009 Biomedical research is becoming more data-intensive as researchers are generating and using increasingly large, complex, and diverse data sets. This era of “Big Data” taxes the ability of biomedical researchers to locate, analyze, and interact with these data (and more generally all biomedical data) and...
- August 13, 2013
Research to Improve the Care of Persons at Clinical High Risk for Psychotic Disorders (R34) Grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: RFA-MH-14-212 Given the highly disruptive and disabling nature of psychotic disorders, early intervention has been recommended as a means of preventing psychosis onset among at-risk individuals, as well as averting other adverse outcomes such as mood syndromes, substance abuse disorders, and functional decline in social, academic,...
- August 13, 2013
Improving Diabetes Management in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes (DP3) Grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: RFA-DK-13-022 The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support research to develop, refine, and pilot test innovative strategies to improve diabetes management in young children with type 1 diabetes (5 years old and under). At the end of the funding period, there should...
- August 13, 2013
Money follows the person rebalancing demonstration grant: Tribal Initiative Grant
By Bridgette Olson on August 13, 2013Read moreFunding Opportunity Number: CMS-1LI-14-001 The purpose of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Money Follows the Person (MFP) Tribal Initiative (TI) is to offer existing MFP state grantees and tribal partners the resources to build sustainable community-based long term services and supports (CB-LTSS) specifically for Indian country....