Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology (93.345)

Also known as LEAP

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$9.8 million
• Grant awards11
• Typical award$999,768
• Awarded in FY 2025$2.0 million
• Size rank1500 of 1824
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreement

Key findings

• Annual funding was roughly flat, $2.0 million in fiscal 2021 and $2.0 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1500th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 10 largest recipients received 102% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 7 states and territories.

What the program funds

The goal of the LEAP in Health IT funding opportunity is to address well-documented and fast emerging challenges inhibiting the development, use, or advancement of well-designed, interoperable health IT, which are scalable across the healthcare industry. Solutions are expected to further a new generation of health IT tools and inform the development, implementation, and refinement of health IT standards, methods, and techniques towards enabling widespread adoption of health IT tools to improve healthcare outcomes.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Public or non-profit private institutions, such as a university, college, or a faith-based or community-based organization; units of local or state government, eligible agencies of the federal government, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (federally recognized, other than federally recognized, and tribally designated organizations).

What the money can and cannot pay for

For Objective 1: The goal of this focus area is for the awardee to develop a prototype and propose enhancements to existing technical specifications that would make it possible for an independent entity to securely access data on various populations of patients from a FHIR-based API. For Objective 2: The goal of this focus area is to advance clinical knowledge into the health care setting via innovative health IT tools and solutions. Funds under this announcement cannot be used for the following purposes: • To purchase or improve land, or to purchase, construct, or make permanent improvements to any building. • To reimburse pre-award costs.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

$2,000,000 was obligated for FY 18 and FY19 for this program. Each award was approximately $1M each. $2,500,000 is set to be obligated for FY20. The award amount will be determined upon the documentation, scope, and strength of the awardee’s application.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Nonprofits received 70% of the money, colleges and universities 30%.

By state

3 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. They are Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.