Great news, everyone! At least two of our concept notes are moving to the next stage of the application process. Here’s the general feedback:
A few general comments to consider when developing the full applications:
- Definition of Global Goods: we call this out explicitly and as such, please ensure that your full application is clear on how you meet this definition. If you are using software, please identify the license and links to source code, etc.
- Scale and deployment: it is important to be clear to highlight your “scale” of deployment for the PRC and please ensure you talk to that in the full application.
- All applications must align to the Instant OpenHIE deployment approach and would ask that you address that directly in the application.
- As a community, we ask that you explicitly call out the various communities you are going to collaborate in during the course of the proposed project (be it a particular OpenHIE community or a particular tool community, etc.).
- It will be important that the full applications identify risks to the project and provide mitigation strategies. If there are no risks, then we ask that it is called out explicitly.
- For all applications, it is important to remember that this funding is not to support implementation of projects (e.g. roll out, etc.) but to support the advancement of the technology and features as per Notice F0/F1/F2.
- Digital Health Atlas (DHA) registration: thank you to those who have your registrations in the DHA. Please note that the DHA has updated its process to have you self-register. For teams that emailed the address found in the concept note, we ask that you please undertake a self-registration. As such, please create an account and register a project and within that project you can register your software as in-use.
Here’s what happens next:
- Between now and December 29th: Work on a first draft of our full Technical Applications.
- December 30-January 7: DS and others get to comment on our draft Technical Applications.
- January 3-7: Flesh out our consortium roles/responsibilities, budget, and budget narrative
- January 8-12: Finalize our full applications
I’ll set up and share Google docs for the technical applications this afternoon. Have a quick question or want to chat about something? Check out our #strategy-operations Slack channel.