AHRQ Makes Bold Plans for Future Successes
By Gopal Khanna MBA – Twenty years ago, two seminal events helped set the nation’s healthcare agenda and formed the legacy of quality improvement that AHRQ carries forth today.
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AHRQ Measures Americans’ Healthcare Spending by Going Door to Door
By Joel Cohen PhD – When the Nation’s top health services researchers want information about what patients are spending on healthcare, they turn to a reliable source: AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), an integral part of the Agency’s unique inventory of data tools and resources.
Innovations to Foster Evidence-based Care in Learning Health Systems
By Stephanie Chang, MD, MPH & Amanda Borsky, Dr.PH, MPP – This is a time of rapid change for health systems. New technologies, infrastructure, incentives and understanding increase the ways that health systems can improve patient care by tracking and using their own internal data.
Facilitating Transformational Change in Primary Care
By Bob McNellis, MPH, PA – I was recently recalling a trip to a national conference in Boston where I crossed paths with a fellow physician assistant who was working in a primary care practice. “Becoming a medical home was the hardest thing we ever did…
AHRQ Social Determinants of Health Challenge Enters Exciting Second Phase!
By Gopal Khanna MBA – I am excited to announce that AHRQ has reached an important milestone in one of its ongoing challenge competitions. We’ve selected 12 semifinalists in our Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge.
The 6th “Right” of CDS
By William Hyman – AHRQ has released another RFP for the development of Computer Decision Support (CDS) modules as part of its CDS Connect program. The premise of CDR Connect is that rule-based CDS systems can be locally developed and then shared as CDS “artifacts”.
Improving Diagnosis: A Vital Patient Safety Frontier
By Jeffrey Brady MD & Gopal Khanna MBA – Each year an estimated 1 in 20 U.S. adults experiences missed, delayed, or incorrect diagnoses. Of the estimated 12 million Americans impacted, 4 million are believed to suffer serious harm.
Enhancing the Use of Evidence with Interoperable Clinical Decision Support
By Edwin Lomotan MD – Today’s medical discoveries and technological advancements suggest we are approaching an exciting new era of patient care. Central to this vision is the successful—and seamless—implementation of health information technologies…
Using AHRQ’s Data Analytics to Understand Today’s Critical Healthcare Issues
By Joel Cohen PhD & Gopal Khanna MBA – As AHRQ continues to collect and disseminate data that describe trends in U.S. healthcare, we are often reminded of an important principle: data alone are often not enough.