AHRQ's Health IT Portfolio sponsors a variety of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements that examine the impact of health IT implementation and use on quality, safety, and other important health care outcomes. This inaugural report, Summary of AHRQ Health Information Technology Portfolio-Funded Projects as of 2008, features:

• A summary of activities in the Health IT Portfolio as of 2008
• Details on how information generated through the Health IT Portfolio is disseminated
• The iterative process used  to generate the 2008 project-specific summaries
• A description of the content of the project-specific summaries

Select the Complete Report [PDF, 4.7MB], which includes the full text of the 124 grant-specific and 26 contract-specific project summaries of AHRQ-managed health projects OR select the Abridged Report [PDF, 1.6MB] that includes links to the Web-based summaries.