The Rhode Island Statewide Health Information Exchange, known as Currentcare, facilitated the development of the capability to deploy health information infrastructure at a statewide scale.
The Indiana Network for Patient Care, an operational health information exchange (HIE) in central Indiana, is one of six AHRQ sponsored State and Regional demonstration projects begun in late 2004 and early 2005 to create State or regional HIEs.
This project developed a process for translating narrative, unstructured, evidence-based clinical recommendations and performance measures into a structured, coded format that can be implemented into health information technology systems.
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.
This project assessed and made recommendations about draft Stage 3 Meaningful Use objectives in the areas of care coordination and patient and family engagement.
The Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network was created as a multistakeholder collaborative to address barriers and facilitators, formulate recommendations, and take action to improve the adoption and use of patient-centered outcomes research-based clinical decision support.
This research developed generalizable guidelines for the use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical practice across healthcare systems. Finding show that strategic governance, practical integration, and data reporting are key guiding principles to support the incorporation of PROs.
