Is the transferring of information onto a DVD for people in rural America considered a Health IT application?
While not necessarily what AHRQ would define as a priority or as our core idea of Health IT, an applicant could describe for us in an application that this intervention, using DVDs, is in fact using Health IT to improve patient-centered care. Clearly, if the DVD was being created through an interaction with a Health IT system, and the information being loaded on through it was from a Health IT system, this would be a very simple case to make. However, even without that, we believe that applicants could write an application that convinces the peer review panel that it is acceptable and responsive to the FOA. Question: If an applicant is registered with the CCR, do they need to register again? Answer: The answer is Yes and No. The No part of that answer is that the CCR, Central Contractor Registration, for an organization, is a one-time registration, and every organization applying under this FOA needs to have done that. However, there is this second required registration that both the o
