AHRQ-Funded Projects
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Accessibility and Beyond: Designing Consumer Health IT for Disabled Individuals
This project engaged individuals with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities to expand upon existing consumer mobile health application design guidance for social networks.
Use of Patient Buddy™ Application to Disseminate Knowledge & Prevent Readmission
This project tested a mobile health application’s impact on reducing readmissions among patients with cirrhosis within 30 days of hospital discharge, and found it to be usable and feasible.
Informing Consumer Health Information Technology Design: How Patients Use Social Networking Sites
This study showed that there is a range of how people communicate with their social network, how this information is communicated, the types of health information communicated, and the rationales for the communication.
Improving Sickle Cell Transitions of Care Through Health Information Technology
This project created recommendations for the development of a health information technology enabled tool to support transitions of care for those with sickle cell disease.
Using Health Information Technology to Improve Health Care Quality in Primary Care Practices and in Transitions between Care Settings
This project sought to identify and assess the best methods of implementing an advanced patient-centered integrated personal health record called MyPreventiveCare.
Tailored DVD to Improve Medication Management for Low Literate Elderly Patients
This project created individualized, culturally and linguistically inclusive education materials for older adults from diverse backgrounds tailored to electronic medication information.