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4921. Improving Sickle Cell Transitions of Care through Health Information Technology - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-sickle-cell-transitions-care-through-health-information-technology/annual-summary/2012
      January 01, 2012 - and development of a technology-enabled tool that meets the needs of patients, their families, and providers … conduct 10 focus groups of key stakeholders including parents and caregivers of patients with SCD, providers … development of a health IT-enabled tool in future phases of work that meets patients’, families’, and providers … use and needs of key stakeholders affected by sickle cell disease, including patients, families, and providers

4922. Safety Through Enhanced e-PreScribing Tools (STEPStools): Developing Web Services for Safe Pediatric Dosing (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/safety_through_enhanced_e_prescribing_tools__stepstools__2010_pdf__2.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - A survey of pediatric providers was completed and providers were presented with a series of case studies … The providers were asked to agree or disagree with the suggested dose, and to explain why if they disagreed … Some of the initial findings are about the types of information that providers find useful in the tool … The team learned what information providers find useful, and what is extraneous.

4923. Ambulatory Care Compact to Organize Risk and Decision-making (ACCORD) - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017190-chueh-final-report-2011.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - Scope: The project team developed ACCORD to help providers and patients manage followup of plans determined … Failure to followup abnormal tests and failure of care providers to adhere to recommended guidelines … Providers: All staff physicians at the IMA are eligible. … Providers cited “always on” reminders to patients and adjustable reminders to providers as a desired … Both providers and patients expressed concerns regarding the time it would take for providers and patients

4924. Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Health Information Exchange (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2010-05-10%20Building%20and%20Maintaining%20a%20Sustainable%20Health%20Information%20Exchange.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - and uninsured • Commercial insurers weren’t particularly aggressive • A history of discord among providers … One  participant summed up the reaction of local health care providers: “If somebody is going to  …  submission by 2009 – e‐Prescribing by 2011 – Interoperable EHRs for all hospitals and  providers …  of Care * ‐ Quality Reporting* ‐ Radiology Image Interfaces* • Support Non‐Priority Providers … Acknowledgments Slide Number 37 Slide Number 38 Slide Number 39 Who We Are and What We Do What Providers

4925. An Electronic Personal Health Record for Mental Health Consumers - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017829-druss-final-report-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Qualitative methods will be used to incorporate input from mental health consumers, providers, and primary … care providers to adapt the Shared Care Plan to the specific needs of persons with mental disorders … by whom, and for how long. 2) PHRs contrain information from one’s entire lifetime and all health providers … controlled and managed by the health provider or institution, and typically do not span multiple providers … , and primary care providers to adapt the Shared Care Plan to the specific needs of persons with mental

4926. Improving Post-Hospital Transitions and Ambulatory Care for Children with Asthma - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-post-hospital-transitions-and-ambulatory-care-children-asthma/annual-summary/2011
      January 01, 2011 - poorly-managed care transitions from the hospital to the ambulatory setting; 3) failure of primary care providers … asthma-specific Reminder and Decision Support (RADS) system, has been developed and implemented to help hospital providers … currently used throughout Primary Children's Medical Center (PCMC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, by health care providers … Surveys will be administered to hospital providers who care for children admitted to PCMC during the … (Ongoing) Determine factors associated with effective use of new IT applications by hospital providers

4927. Medicaid Medical Home Initiative and the Role of Health Information Technology (HIT) (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/medicaid_medical_home_initiatives_and_the_role_of_health_information_technology_5.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - Medicaid leadership and capacity 3 Primary Care Crisis • Primary care crisis persists – Primary care providers … –PCIP Website – Services that the PCIP team provide include • Implementation team that helps providers … – Designated providers must report quality measures as condition of reimbursement. … to inform of the program • Consumer group input on program design and materials • Using BH providers … • Help PCPs build a better medical home by targeting providers with ARRA HITECH incentives • Identify

4928. Developing Shared EHR Infrastructure in Wisconsin (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/p20hs015295-size-final-report-2005.pdf
      January 01, 2005 - potential early adopters involved include 12 rural Wisconsin hospitals, the 4 main Madison healthcare providers … our project (as represented in our planning grant application) was to assemble multiple healthcare providers … Develop a workable model/plan for standards based data sharing that would allow multiple providers using … The urban providers have been represented by the Madison Patient Safety Collaborative (MPSC), a coalition … Currently, over 25 hospitals, clinics, regional providers, and service vendors are connected to the

4929. Ambulatory Care Compact to Organize Risk and Decisionmaking (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/ambulatory_care_compact_to_organize_risk_and_decisionmaking__accord__2010pdf_2.pdf
      August 01, 2011 - The project team is developing ACCORD to help providers and patients manage followup activities determined … ACCORD will enable patient-specific care plan development to reduce miscommunication between providers … The project team is working to ensure that patients and providers are comfortable proposing the care … Step two will test the tool to determine if providers and patients are comfortable creating explicit … Intervention group providers will be trained to use ACCORD in both the episodic, one problem at a time

4930. Length of Stay (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/length-of-stay-quick-reference-guide.pdf
      March 01, 2009 - Literature: Patients may experience extensions in hospitalizations due to delays in decisionmaking by providers … specialists.1 Health IT applications that facilitate the transmission of important patient data to providers … Electronic health records (EHRs) allow providers to view a patient’s medical record electronically in … By doing so, providers can avoid waiting for paper charts to arrive to the hospital floor or ordering … delivered faster.2,6 Viewing results electronically may allow for faster access to results, enabling providers

4931. Project ECHO: Hepatitis C Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement in New Mexico Through Health Information Technology (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r18hs018171-arora-annual-summary-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Providers require access to patient-specific information to consult on cases, track patient progress … At Project ECHO’s inception, community-based providers transmitted patient-specific information to specialists … This system will improve quality of care and lead to greater knowledge sharing among health care providers … links and allow patients to see their summary reports, facilitating better communication with their providers

4932. Unlocking Quality Information: Understanding the Value of Health IT for Quality Measurement and Improvement: A Workshop for Medicaid/CHIP Agencies (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/unlocking_quality_information__understanding_the_value_of_health_it_for_quality_measurement_and_improvement_5.pdf
      April 26, 2010 - . • Harmonize measures across sites and providers. • Promote shared accountability and measurement across … • If so: • Do providers or managed care organizations report any quality measurement data to you currently … • Connect providers to statewide HIE. • Integrate HIT to medical home strategy. • Leverage CHIPRA grant … • Leverage lessons learned from CHIPRA grant. • Partner with MCOs to push/pull data to providers. • … • Leverage quality improvement to encourage providers to adopt HIT (P4P). 73 Future Directions

4933. Community Chronic Care Network (ppt file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/implementation/Shoe-CCCN%205-05.ppt
      April 21, 2005 - The Project Expand a highly functional diabetes registry to all patients, all providers, all payors … in Santa Cruz County Core: Decision support for providers Connect people with care Spread best practices

4934. Harnessing Health Information Technology to Prevent Medication-Induced Birth Defects (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017093_schwarz_pdf_3.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - included lack of insurance or family planning coverage; limits on provider time; limited access to providers … trained to fit or insert contraceptive devices; competing medical priorities for patients and providers … ; visit type; case mix; and lack of a clinical care system to remind providers. … Of note, to avoid alert fatigue, the CDS system was designed such that providers were alerted only once … An unintended consequence of this design was identified in the analysis; 13 percent of providers responded

4935. Harnessing Health Information Technology to Prevent Medication-Induced Birth Defects (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/harnessing_hit_to_prevent_medication_induced_birth_defects_2.pdf
      September 01, 2011 - The project team also determined that approximately 13 percent of providers responded to the alerts … The providers identified patient contraceptive method of preference, outside influences, already on … The bulk of the discussion focused on perception of barriers that providers bring to contraception counseling … counseling included lack of insurance or family planning coverage, limitations on time, access to providers … , competing medical priorities, visit type, case mix, and lack of a clinical care system to remind providers

4936. AHRQ Presentation: Billings Care Transitions (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/improving-care-transitions-for-the-medically-complex-patient-in-rural-montana.pdf
      September 29, 2011 - 2007a, 4Kripalani 2007b The PITSTOP Project Patient Information Transfer System to Outpatient Providers … ) • Providers and Nurses: Patient Call Backs  High-risk patients • Hospitalists: Teach Back  High-risk … efficient and reliable and results in quality patient care. 2.8% 36.1% 48.6% 2.8% 9.7% Outpatient providers … from the hospital regarding their patients after discharge. 7.0% 22.5% 50.7% 4.2% 15.5% Outpatient providers … reconciled medication list, at time of hospital discharge 15.3% 43.1% 30.6% 0.0% 11.1% Outpatient providers

4937. Improving Population Health Through Enhanced Targeted Regional Decision Support (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r01hs020909-dixon-annual-summary-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Project Period: September 2011 – September 2016 AHRQ Funding Amount: $2,041,559 Summary: Clinical providers … messaging system will deliver the forms, allowing them to be integrated more seamlessly into health care providers … When forms are flagged as reportable, they will be sent to appropriate clinical providers and public … management of population-level notifiable condition reporting and bidirectional communication among providers … Baseline surveys were distributed to health care providers and interviews were conducted with clinic

4938. Evaluation of Effectiveness of a Health Information Technology-Based Care Transition Information Transfer System (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r18hs017864-ciemins-annual-summary-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - AHRQ Funding Amount: $1,155,371 Summary: Improving communication between inpatient and outpatient providers … information transfer (CTIT) system for all Billings Clinic Hospital discharged patients and post-acute care providers … Internal providers may also receive notification through the EHR messaging system. … Outside providers are prompted to access more complete medical information by connecting through a Web-based … The system provides patients and their primary care providers (PCPs) with discharge information, including

4939. Evaluation of Effectiveness of a Health Information Technology-Based Care Transition Information Transfer System (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017864_ciemins_pdf_3.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - Information Transfer (CTIT) system for all Billings Clinic Hospital discharged patients and followup providers … These providers are prompted to access more complete medical information by connecting through a Web-based … The system provides patients and their primary care providers (PCPs) with discharge information, including … Post-intervention results showed that 63 percent of providers found the discharge process to be efficient … Substantial improvements were also shown when providers were asked whether information was sufficient

4940. Improving Care Transitions for Complex Patients Through Decision Support (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r18hs017795-eisenstein-annual-summary-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - patients with complex health care needs is often fragmented because patients receive care from multiple providers … disparate locations and because information related to this care is often not transmitted between providers … Coordinated Healthcare, an existing regional health information exchange (HIE) network that connects providers … delivered successfully, the site audits found that only 60 percent of the information directed to providers … information for managing care transitions was frequently missing and not available to the medical home providers