AHRQ-Funded Projects
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Power to the Patient: Design and Test of Closed-Loop Interactive IT for Geriatric Heart Failure Self-Care
The goal of this project is to design and test an information technology called Power to the People to support self-care management among older patients with chronic heart failure.
Intervention INC: Interactive Nutrition Comics for Urban Minority Youth
The research team designed and developed “Invention INC,” an interactive nutrition comic for dietary self-management, focused on reducing childhood obesity risk in urban minority youth.
Information Needs of Homecare Nurses During Admission and Care Planning
This project will analyze and model the information requirements, decisionmaking, and workflow of homecare nurses admitting patients and characterize if and how health information technology systems support their needs.
Insights for Community Health
This project implemented a personal health record and population-level dashboard to assist lay health workers in a church-based setting with the goal of improving blood pressure control, and succeeded in increasing the number of participant physician visits and total fruit and vegetable consumption.
Improving Medication Management Practices and Care Transitions through Technology
This project examined the relative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a health information technology intervention designed to facilitate high-quality care transitions to home health care.