Georgia GREAT Health Program — Year 1 Funding Active

Your data infrastructure is already grant-ready.

Georgia has been awarded $218.8 million in Year 1 GREAT Health funding. GRAChIE's FHIR-enabled platform maps directly to every GREAT pillar — and if you're already a GRAChIE partner, you have a meaningful head start. Funds must be allocated by October 2026.

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$218.8M
Georgia Year 1
GREAT Health award
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GREAT funding pillars —
GRAChIE maps to all five
Oct ’26
Allocation deadline —
planning starts now
Existing GRAChIE Partners
Hospitals that have signed the AHEAD Letter of Intent receive priority access across all five GREAT funding pillars.
Your connection is already the foundation.
The Five GREAT Pillars

Where GRAChIE fits — pillar by pillar

Every GREAT funding pillar has a data infrastructure requirement. Here's how your GRAChIE connection addresses each one — without new build-outs or additional vendor contracts.

$56.75M
AHEAD Model Readiness — Year 1 Largest Pillar
★ AHEAD Priority
How GRAChIE helps
Fixed global budget payments require managing population risk you cannot fully see from within your own EMR. GRAChIE surfaces encounters at other facilities, medications prescribed elsewhere, and clinical summaries from across Georgia — giving your team the complete population view AHEAD demands.
$15.2M
Readmissions, ED Utilization & Inter-Hospital Transfers
How GRAChIE helps
Real-time ADT event notifications alert care teams the moment a patient is admitted, discharged, or transferred — anywhere in the network, not just your facility. Timely awareness drives proactive follow-up and reduces the avoidable readmissions GREAT measures.
$6.55M
Rural Telepsychiatry & Perinatal Systems of Care
How GRAChIE helps
Event notifications and secure document exchange enable psychiatric consultants to access referring provider records and share notes back in real time. The same infrastructure alerts perinatal care teams across prenatal, delivery, and postpartum settings — two distinct GREAT line items, one existing connection.
$44M total
EMR Population Health Modules
How GRAChIE helps
GREAT funds rural hospital EMR upgrades specifically to support AHEAD outcomes reporting. GRAChIE's FHIR-enabled exchange and standardized HL7 messaging provide the interoperability layer that makes those modules functional and grant-compliant across your care network.
$5M Yr1 / $30M total
Building Bridges: School-Based Healthcare HIE
How GRAChIE helps
GREAT explicitly funds an HIE to connect rural school-based health services with the broader care network. Your existing GRAChIE connection can be extended to give school-based behavioral health providers real-time access to hospital admissions, discharge summaries, and medication data — a model demonstrated in Michigan where provider accuracy improved from 5.5 to 8 out of 10.
$10.2M
Consumer Engagement Enhancements
How GRAChIE helps
GRAChIE's Patient Authorization Service enables patients to manage their own consent preferences across the care continuum — directly supporting the consumer engagement and health plan integration GREAT's $51M total consumer investment is designed to advance.
Already a GRAChIE Partner?

You're not starting from scratch. You're already connected.

Building new data infrastructure from scratch means months of procurement before implementation even begins — and an unproven timeline against October 2026. As a GRAChIE partner, your organization already has the foundation. We can help you build on it within your grant window.

Let's talk about your GREAT strategy →
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Active HIE connection already in place — no procurement delay, no onboarding from zero
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Fourteen years serving rural Georgia providers — including the markets where the economics make it easiest to look the other way
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Connected to the statewide network from day one — your patients don't stay inside your walls, and your data infrastructure shouldn't either
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Deployable within your grant timeline — we build proposals mapped to eligible activities with realistic timelines your grant team can use
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AHEAD priority access for LOI signatories — if your organization has signed the AHEAD Letter of Intent, you're first in line across all five pillars
Ready to Move Forward?

Three ways to take the next step

Whether you want to talk strategy, see how GRAChIE maps to your specific grant application, or share this with your team — here's where to start.

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Best first step
Schedule a 30-minute call
No pitch, no demo. We want to understand your GREAT planning priorities and tell you honestly where GRAChIE adds the most value. From there, we can map a proposal to eligible activities with timelines your grant team can stand behind.
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For your team
Download the one-pager
A one-page summary of how GRAChIE maps to each GREAT pillar, the case for expanding your existing connection over building new, and Katie's contact information. Built for sharing with your CFO, board, or grant planning team.
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Get in touch directly
Not ready for a call yet? Send us a message with your questions, your organization, or your timeline and we'll follow up with the information most relevant to your situation.
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About GRAChIE

Fourteen years. Rural Georgia. Deliberately.

GRAChIE — the Georgia Regional Academic Community Information Exchange — is a health information exchange built specifically for rural Georgia. We connect providers, payers, and community partners across the state's most underserved markets: the places where the need is greatest and the economics make it easiest to look the other way.

We are an affiliate of Velatura HIE Corporation, a multi-state health information exchange and health AI organization with experience deploying interoperability infrastructure across rural and underserved communities nationwide.

GREAT Health represents one of the most significant rural health investments in Georgia's history. We intend to help our network make the most of it.

Infrastructure
FHIR-enabled Clinical Data Repository with standardized HL7 messaging and OAuth 2.0 / mutual TLS security — meeting modern interoperability and cybersecurity requirements across every GREAT pillar
Network
Active connections across Georgia rural providers, giving your organization cross-organizational visibility the moment data exchange begins — not after months of implementation
Affiliation
An affiliate of Velatura HIE Corporation — serving Missouri, Georgia, Florida, and communities nationwide, with deep experience in federal health IT grant-funded initiatives
Questions?
Contact Katie Goulette, Executive Director: Katie.goulette@velatura.org  ·  grachie.org