Capacity Building to Develop Standard Electronic Client Information Data Systems

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This funding initiative will support organizations funded under Parts A-D of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment and Modernization Act of 2006 that will promote the development of standard electronic client information data systems to improve the ability of grantees to report client level data to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Applicant organizations must include plans for the development of a client level data system to collect and report client level data elements at the service provder level on a recurring basis starting in FY 2010. This support is limited to organizations in need of an adequate information technology (IT) infrastructure and will be limited to the acquisition and implementation of hardware and software components, including stand alone, network, and other management health information systems that will facilitate the reporting of client level data. Plans must include hardware and software configurations that are responsive and compatible to the data reporting requirements specified by DHHS and must demonstrate the capacity and procedures to electronically and physically protect the privacy and information of unduplicated standard data elements across all service providers. Applicants must also include plans for disseminating complete and accurate documentation of their system development, implementation and database contents to DHHS and nationally to Ryan White program grantees for the purpose of replication and integration.

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