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WESTBOROUGH, MA – April 9, 2015 – MeHI, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, has announced the first round of grantees from the eQuality Incentive Program (eQIP) for behavioral health providers located across the Commonwealth. MeHI has awarded grants to 18 non-profits across the Commonwealth, which will total nearly $1 million if the awardees reach each of the program milestones. The funds will help these Massachusetts practices invest in innovative health information technologies, or health IT, to improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs, while ensuring appropriate privacy and security of behavioral health patient data.

LOWELL, Mass. – Gov. Charlie Baker today announced a $4 million dollar grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (“MassTech”) to UMass Lowell to support development of a printed and flexible electronics industry cluster, an emerging field that has the potential to become a $76 billion global market in the next decade.

WOODS HOLE, MASS. – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) a $5 million grant toward the construction of new facilities for the testing and research into innovative marine robotics such autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The five-year grant award is being made as part of the Collaborative Research and Development Matching Grant Program, managed by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech). The grant to WHOI’s Center for Marine Robotics will help accelerate the deployment of new and existing marine robotics technologies in Massachusetts.

WESTBOROUGH, MA – Wednesday, November 5, 2014 – The application period is now open for the eQuality Incentive Program (eQIP), a new program led by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MeHI). eQIP will provide eligible behavioral healthcare provider organizations in Massachusetts with access to financial incentives for adopting health information technology such as electronic health records (EHRs).

BOSTON – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative recently announced the winners of the first ever Mass EduData Challenge. The pilot six-week data challenge aimed at acquiring unique insights from a comprehensive cache of Massachusetts education data, awarded prizes to three teams at the July 15th awards ceremony at hack/reduce in Cambridge. The three winning projects each addressed a different aspect of the central theme of driving better insight and understanding from historical data sets provided by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Winners included collaborative teams from local non-profit City Year, and from global technology company Xerox, as well as individual data analysts from the region.