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| Description:This randomized clinical trial assesses clinical decision support systems to improve dental care of patients with chronic medical conditions. The project integrates electronic dental and medical records through a health information exchange. |
| Principal Investigator:Fricton, James |
| Project Dates:Jul 1, 2012 -Apr 30, 2015 |
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| Description:This project will create, implement, and evaluate two proposed National Quality Forum e-Quality measures for potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits: 1) returns to the ED within 72 hours and 2) frequent ED users. |
| Principal Investigator:Shapiro, Jason S. |
| Project Dates:May 1, 2012 -Feb 28, 2017 |
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| Description:This project will implement decision support and clinical messaging tools to streamline information sharing and enhance information quality among healthcare providers and population health stakeholders to improve reporting of diseases and care processes. |
| Principal Investigator:Grannis, Shaun |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2011 -Sep 29, 2016 |
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| Description:This project evaluated the feasibility of primary care physicians to integrate an interactive preventive healthcare record (IPHR), which was created during a previous study, into their practices to deliver preventive services. |
| Principal Investigator:Krist, Alexander |
| Project Dates:Jun 15, 2010 -Feb 28, 2012 |
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| Description:The transition of patients between care locations has repeatedly been characterized by serious quality gaps that can compromise medical safety. To address these gaps, the project team will enhance a working health-information exchange (HIE) to enable clinicians to work more effectively and efficiently and to utilize the HIE more fully when managing care transitions. |
| Principal Investigator:Walker, James |
| Project Dates:May 19, 2010 -Mar 31, 2015 |
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| Description:This study assessed whether adoption of a community-wide health information exchange is associated with a reduction in utilization of laboratory and radiology testing. |
| Principal Investigator:Nease, Donald |
| Project Dates:May 1, 2010 -Apr 30, 2012 |
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| Description:This study will describe the data requirements for electronic information exchange between PCCs and EDs to support individual patient care and care transitions. It will also describe current information exchange scenarios and identify clinical, operational, and legal considerations important for electronic information exchange between PCCs and EDs. |
| Principal Investigator:Cummins, Mollie Rebecca |
| Project Dates:Mar 1, 2010 -Nov 30, 2011 |
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| Description:This project is studying the use of a mobile personal health application (MyMediHealth) to support home care for children with asthma. My Medihealth will provide medication information and reminders by cell phone or pager. |
| Principal Investigator:Johnson, Kevin B |
| Project Dates:Dec 1, 2009 -Nov 30, 2012 |
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| Description:Many current and proposed projects present a specific type of information or information from a specific source to care providers using a pre-determined content or format. This can be a barrier to the full use of the resource if providers think the presentation is inefficient or inappropriate. The goal of the proposed research is to develop, implement, and evaluate a prototype for a scalable and widely deployable knowledge delivery service ("knowledge broker") capable of automatically delivering context-specific knowledge from online resources into electronic health record (EHR) systems via a "knowledge dashboard." This will help providers address their knowledge gaps, leading to better and more informed decisions. |
| Principal Investigator:Del Fiol, Guilherme |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2009 -Jul 31, 2013 |
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| Description:Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island has designed a two-phase study of the feasibility and acceptability of an e-health model for the treatment of hypertension. The study, the eHealth Blood Pressure (BP) Control Program, integrates electronic medical records (EMR) and personal health records (PHR) with monitoring devices through a Web portal connecting patients to their medical team. With patient education, collaborative self-management support, and care coordination, the program strives to increase medication adherence, reduce clinical inertia, and improve patients' blood pressure control. This will provide the pilot data needed for a randomized practical clinical trial of the eHealth BP Control Program. |
| Principal Investigator:Eaton, Charles B |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2009 -Sep 29, 2011 |
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| Description:For small- to medium-sized primary care practices implementing health information technology (IT), financial and technical resource limitations often require the adaptation of technology that is already available. |
| Principal Investigator:Krist, Alexander |
| Project Dates:Sep 15, 2009 -Mar 31, 2012 |
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| Description:Developing and using a health care network requires collaboration among the stakeholders. This project focuses on how models of community planning and development, both in health care and other industries, can be used to establish sustainable regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and health information exchange (HIE) activities. It seeks to identify characteristics that distinguish successful and unsuccessful community efforts to collaborate on shared benefits, as a guide for future RHIO and HIE development. |
| Principal Investigator:Berkowitz, Alicia |
| Project Dates:Aug 12, 2009 -Aug 31, 2011 |
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| Description:This project focused on understanding key lessons learned by the six AHRQ funded State and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology and creating a catalog of resources for HIE stakeholders. |
| Principal Investigator:Bhardwaj, Ajay |
| Project Dates:Jun 8, 2009 -Jun 7, 2010 |
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| Description:This project is developing a practical measure of the readiness of ambulatory patients with chronic conditions to use web-based health resources, testing the predictive validity of the measure against logs of actual use of these resources by these same patients, and directly observing their use of these resources. This project is also examining how use of web-based resources is associated with clinical outcomes for patients with diabetes. |
| Principal Investigator:Koopman, Richelle J. |
| Project Dates:Mar 1, 2009 -Feb 28, 2014 |
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| Description:Adapts an existing personal health record to fit the needs of persons with a serious mental disorder and one or more chronic medical conditions. |
| Principal Investigator:Druss, Benjamin |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2008 -Sep 29, 2011 |
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| Description:Develops and implements a health information exchange network focused on coordination of care for individuals with chronic mental illness. |
| Principal Investigator:Baker, Wende |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2008 -Sep 29, 2011 |
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| Description:Develops, implements, and evaluates an electronic personal health record to support improved self-management and clinical outcomes in pediatric cancer survivors. |
| Principal Investigator:Mertens, Ann |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2008 -Sep 29, 2011 |
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| Description:This project is a comprehensive review of current literature on CHI, defined as "any electronic tool, technology, or electronic application that is designed to interact directly with consumers, with or without the presence of a health care professional, that provides or uses individualized (personal) information and provides the consumer with individualized assistance to help the patient better manage his or her health or health care." |
| Principal Investigator:Gibbons, M. Chris |
| Project Dates:Aug 4, 2008 -Oct 1, 2009 |
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| Description:The purpose of this project was to establish a foundation and propose an action agenda for the integration of patients’ personal health information management into the design of consumer health information technology. |
| Principal Investigator:Peterson, Anne |
| Project Dates:Jul 14, 2008 -Dec 31, 2009 |
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| Description:The project designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated an interoperable quality information system for a collaborative network of community health centers with real-time, synchronized quality reporting to inform patient care. |
| Principal Investigator:Davidson, Arthur |
| Project Dates:Jan 31, 2008 -Jun 30, 2010 |
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| Description:This project is convening focus groups to gain insight into health care consumers' awareness and perceptions of health information technology and obtain feedback on how best to engage consumers in the design and implementation of future innovations. |
| Principal Investigator:Schneider, Sid |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2007 -Jun 30, 2009 |
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| Description:RTI International developed and implemented a 3-year technical assistance program to help AHRQ provide support to Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Programs agencies to assist in developing and implementing health IT and HIE. |
| Principal Investigator:Dimitropoulos, Linda |
| Project Dates:Sep 28, 2007 -Feb 28, 2011 |
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| Description:This project sought to identify existing, and create new, clinical quality of care metrics able to be reliably retrieved from electronic systems, such as electronic health records and health information exchanges. |
| Principal Investigator:Kaushal, Rainu |
| Project Dates:Sep 17, 2007 -Mar 31, 2011 |
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| Description:We propose to develop and evaluate an integrated patient-centered health information system, the Personal Health Partner (PHP). The PHP will use fully automated, interactive, conversations to gather personal health data and counsel parents before scheduled visits, exchange that data with the child's primary care clinician via the electronic health record (EHR), and offer personalized follow-up assessment and counseling after visits. |
| Principal Investigator:Adams, William |
| Project Dates:Sep 13, 2007 -Aug 31, 2011 |
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| Description:This project evaluated the readiness and feasibility of EHR data for ambulatory clinical performance measurement in a community-wide, multi-payer HIE. |
| Principal Investigator:Schneider, Eric |
| Project Dates:Sep 12, 2007 -Aug 31, 2011 |
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| Description:Personal Health Records (PHR) are controlled by patients and assist them to store information about their medications and health conditions. Patients can use PHRs to share their information with their healthcare providers. We are proposing a study of the effects of a PHR on medication adherence, medication use quality, and medication management behaviors. |
| Principal Investigator:Chrischilles, Elizabeth |
| Project Dates:Sep 7, 2007 -Aug 31, 2011 |
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| Description:Ambulatory Care Compact to Organize Risk and Decisionmaking (ACCORD) will design, develop, implement, and evaluate an innovative model of care delivery that enables patients and primary care providers (PCPs) to agree upon shared, follow-up care plans that incorporate patient and provider preferences. |
| Principal Investigator:Chueh, Henry |
| Project Dates:Sep 4, 2007 -Aug 31, 2011 |
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| Description:In this project, the team identified the most appropriate and feasible methods of collecting data on national performance on the adoption, use, and outcomes of health IT. |
| Principal Investigator:Spranca, Mark |
| Project Dates:Sep 1, 2007 -Aug 20, 2010 |
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| Description:This project evaluated how the implementation of a secure e-mail messaging (e-messaging) system between clinicians and patients affects provider efficiency, utilization of emergency department for medication refills, and patients’ satisfaction. |
| Principal Investigator:Hsiao, Allen L., M.D. |
| Project Dates:Sep 1, 2007 -Sep 30, 2009 |
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| Description:This project evaluated a multidisciplinary team approach to diabetes care that was combined with technology tools, including an online disease management system integrated with an electronic health record. |
| Principal Investigator:Tang, Paul |
| Project Dates:Sep 1, 2007 -Aug 31, 2011 |
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| Description:The Interactive Preventive Health Record is a personal health record that was created and tested to make preventive information actionable for patients. |
| Principal Investigator:Krist, Alexander |
| Project Dates:Sep 1, 2007 -Feb 28, 2011 |
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| Description:This case study examined four different HIE organizations to explore stakeholders’ perspectives on benefits and barriers of participating in health information exchange. |
| Principal Investigator:Grossman, Joy |
| Project Dates:Aug 1, 2006 -Feb 29, 2008 |
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| Description:Develop a comprehensive plan for health IT implementation and integration by assessing specific clinical and organizational needs, feasibility of health IT implementation, defining project parameters, developing the implementation plan, and specifying procedures for ongoing evaluation and feedback. |
| Principal Investigator:Bergner, Greg |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2005 -Sep 29, 2009 |
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| Description:Implemented a HIPAA-compliant electronic records system to improve public health, patient safety and facilitate information sharing among health care providers in the Talequah area, with the goals of establishing a Web-based information and referral service and creating a community-wide, science-based prevention strategy supported by the new information system. |
| Principal Investigator:Jones, Mark |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2005 -Sep 29, 2008 |
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| Description:Established a Web-based electronic medical record system for 10 small rural hospitals to connect them to the area's regional medical center. The project's ultimate goal was to quickly give all providers access to patient data, eliminate duplicate tests and exams, deliver high-quality care, reduce medical errors and track health outcomes. |
| Principal Investigator:Wheeler, Donald |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2005 -Sep 29, 2009 |
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| Description:Expands upon an electronic medical records-sharing initiative for high-risk infants and their families in Mississippi, linking new health centers and clinics and serving a rural area that spans 17 counties; uses telemedicine technologies to enhance evidence-based developmental care for newborns in acute care hospitals; and creates Web-based decision support resources for physicians who care for infants. |
| Principal Investigator:Rachal, Valerie |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2005 -Sep 29, 2009 |
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| Description:Integrated existing health IT technology software and systems among a three-hospital consortium to create a shared electronic record that ultimately gave providers access to real-time data and the ability to electronically prescribe medications. The goals of the project were to reduce medical errors, improve the quality of patient care, increase patient satisfaction and lower costs. |
| Principal Investigator:Sims, Thomas |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2005 -Sep 29, 2008 |
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| Description:Launches a health records-sharing project, led by Geisinger Health System, with Shamokin Area Community Hospital and Sunbury Community Hospital to permit secure electronic access to patient records. |
| Principal Investigator:Richards, Francis |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2005 -Sep 29, 2009 |
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| Description:The Delaware Health Information Network implemented a real-time electronic method for health care providers to obtain information about their patients. |
| Principal Investigator:Lee, Jan |
| Project Dates:Sep 1, 2005 -Sep 30, 2011 |
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| Description:This project built a prototype data exchange and functioned as a learning laboratory which identified architecture and policy issues needing to be addressed to establish a sustainable business model for health information exchanges. |
| Principal Investigator:Davidson, Arthur |
| Project Dates:Oct 1, 2004 -Jun 30, 2010 |
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| Description:Planned, developed, and implemented a methodology for behavioral health care providers to standardize core shared data elements; designed an integrated management information system for the sharing of health care data and information among rural and urban health care providers; connected rural providers to urban providers; and developed messaging capabilities between primary care and behavioral health care providers. |
| Principal Investigator:Baker, Wende |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2006 |
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| Description:Assessed the costs and benefits of health IT in an established community-wide network of academic, private and public healthcare facilities created to share clinical information for the purpose of population-based care management of Medicaid beneficiaries. |
| Principal Investigator:Lobach, David |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Aug 31, 2008 |
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Description:This project developed a comprehensive plan for health IT implementation and integration by assessing specific clinical and organizational needs, feasibility of health IT implementation, defining project parameters, developing the implementation plan, and specifying procedures for ongoing evaluation and feedback.
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| Principal Investigator:Bergner, Greg |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2005 |
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| Description:Created a plan for developing an integrated, multifunctional, HIPAA-compliant Community Health Information Network; developed a telephonic comprehensive nurse line service and triage function; and investiged and implemented improvements for streamlining of existing appointment systems. |
| Principal Investigator:Jones, Mark |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2005 |
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| Description:Evaluated the effects of a Web portal-based patient empowerment program and EMR system on quality of care, patient safety, and utilization for patients with diabetes and physicians in primary care practices. |
| Principal Investigator:Cebul, Randall |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Feb 29, 2008 |
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| Description:Created a community-wide EMR with integrated clinical decision support that is available across the continuum of care including a rural hospital, a home health agency, 14 physician clinics, and 5 long-term care facilities. |
| Principal Investigator:Esch, Peggy |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2007 |
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| Description:Developed a regional collaborative and business plan for implementing health IT in a rural region; also conducted a telemedicine demonstration project to assess the barriers and issues of broad health IT intervention including telemedicine/teleradiology, scan/store medical record, chronic disease registry and personal health record, and linking the region's partners. |
| Principal Investigator:Nocella, Kiki |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2005 |
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| Description:Developed a plan for enhancing communication at care transitions through an implementation plan for a community- and patient-shared EMR abstract that is available at the point of care. |
| Principal Investigator:Bershow, Barry |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2005 |
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| Description:Expanded an established Web-based, interactive Diabetes Mellitus Registry that provides patient histories and needed tests at the point of care among public, private, and not-for-profit health care providers; also tracks the diabetes population to identify trends in key indicators of care. |
| Principal Investigator:Littman, Eleanor |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Dec 31, 2007 |
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| Description:Planned the development and implementation of a health IT infrastructure throughout three rural counties, including high-speed Internet access, CPOE, CDSS, EHR, and continuity of care record templates. |
| Principal Investigator:Reiter, William |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2006 |
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| Description:Assessed current technology resources and planned implementation of area-wide electronic communications and connectivity to electronic health records and a patient-support Web-based data system.
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| Principal Investigator:Caswell, Susan |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2006 |
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| Description:Planned the implementation of a regional health record system within established networks of rural hospitals, clinics, public health providers, behavioral health providers, and others across a 14,000 square mile remote area. |
| Principal Investigator:Shank, Nancy |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2005 |
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| Description:Identified essential technological needs for accessing and sharing data and information between patients and health care providers; developed an implementation plan to expand the transmission of referral information electronically in a closed health system to an open system. |
| Principal Investigator:Ireson, Carol |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Mar 29, 2006 |
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| Description:Assesses the value of HIE in ambulatory care by modifying an existing economic model of HIE and tests the model in a randomized controlled trial. |
| Principal Investigator:Overhage, Marc |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2009 |
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| Description:Planned, developed, and implemented health IT to assist local rural communities improve health care access, build local and regional resources to monitor the quality of health care, and expand the use of health IT educational, communication, and clinical applications. |
| Principal Investigator:Wheeler, Donald |
| Project Dates:Sep 30, 2004 -Sep 29, 2005 |
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| Description:Analyzed a patient secure messaging application for patients with depression, congestive heart failure, and diabetes, and evaluated potential for safer and more effective medical care. |
| Principal Investigator:Ralston, James D. |
| Project Dates:Sep 1, 2004 -Jun 30, 2006 |
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