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AHRQ-Funded Projects
Patient Choice of Telemedicine Encounters
This project will examine the quality and safety impact of patient-initiated telemedicine visits with primary care providers.
Improving Allergy Documentation and Clinical Decision Support in the Electronic Health Record
This project will redesign approaches for collecting and using allergy information with the goal of improving healthcare quality and safety, including completeness and accuracy of allergy data.
Meaningful Drug Interaction Alerts
This project proposes a novel proactive system to reduce alert burden and thereby increase attention to situations in which patient safety is at risk.
Incorporating PRO Data Into RA Clinical Encounters Using Health-IT (PACT)
This project will develop and evaluate an an electronic dashboard to display patient reported outcomes for patients with rheumatoid arthritis that will facilitate clinician and patient conversations about their care.
Annual Conference on Health Information Technology & Analytics (CHITA)
The central goal of the annual Conference on Health IT & Analytics is to develop a health information technology and analytics (HIT+A) research agenda that supports national efforts to create a learning health system that produces evidence to make health care safer, of higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable.
Providing Evidence and Developing a Toolkit to Accelerate the Adoption of Patient Photographs in Electronic Health Records
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of patient photographs displayed in electronic health record systems for preventing wrong-patient errors.
School-Based Tele-Physiatry Assistance for Rehabilitative and Therapeutic Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs Living in Rural and Underserved Communities
This project will determine the impact of using telemedicine to serve children with special healthcare needs living in rural and underserved communities.
Optimizing the Value of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Improving Care Delivery through Health Information Technology
This project will identify orthopedic clinical outcome measures that are most important to patients, and study the impact on satisfaction and outcomes when this information is provided to patients and their doctors.
Engaging Disadvantaged Patients in Sharing Patient-Generated Health Data and Patient-Reported Outcomes through Health Information Technology
This study will test the hypothesis that low-income, disadvantaged patients can provide high-quality patient-generated health data and patient-reported outcomes through commercial technologies, and that these data can be used to improve healthcare quality and delivery.
Speech Telerehabilition After Stroke: Proof-of-Concept and Feasibility
This project will conduct a proof-of-concept and feasibility study of aphasia telerehabilitation for stroke patients with aphasia residing in rural North Carolina.
