CMS Technical Assistance Database

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Launches Technical Assistance Database

Good news! CMS has just launched an exciting new database to showcase the efforts of many of the technical assistance providers serving CMS' grantees. The "Technical Assistance Database" will allow you to see the wide range of activities that support and enrich the grantees under the New Freedom Initiative. The database will contain important information regarding existing and upcoming research products, conferences, and significant meetings as well as a wide variety of toolkits, surveys, and policy briefs, intended to be of interested to the disability and long-term care community.

All stakeholders will be able to view the database. CMS grantees, however, will be given access passcodes to enable them to post requests for technical assistance to the vast cadre of experts supporting CMS' initiatives. To access the Technical Assistance Database, please go to www.DEHPG.net. The user name for the database is "TAdatabase" and the "passcode" is Readonly#1.

Grantees are strongly encouraged to utilize the Technical Assistance Database. To request a passcode, please e-mail your request to the CMS Resource Box at TAdatabase@cms.hhs.gov. Please indicate your name, type of grant you represent, and your phone number in the e-mail. In the near future, CMS will offer a training sessions, customized for the NFI grantees, to demonstrate the vast uses of this robust database. We encourage you to request your passcode soon, so that you can avail yourself of this dynamic training. Details regarding the trainings will be forthcoming.