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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives
January 01, 2023 - Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement (2012-2013)
Pathways to Quality Measurement Through Health IT … and reported on strategies, health services infrastructure, and research challenges related to these measures … Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program (2007-2013)
The purpose of AHRQ's Ambulatory Safety and Quality … (ASQ) program was to improve the safety and quality of ambulatory health care in the United States. … The program included four health information technology (IT) focused ASQ initiatives.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017261-schillinger-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - safety
events16 and that these events usually have multifactorial causes9
Self-management support programs … home, by using health IT tools as a means of surveillance, such as: (a)
telephonic self-management programs … We used validated scales (refer to Table 1), intended to capture the experience of
having a chronic … self-management behaviors between PLUS and ONLY groups,
but there were several differences in sub-scales … A 12-Item Short-
Form Health Survey: construction of scales and
preliminary tests of reliability and
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/spreading-and-scaling-use-patient-reported-outcomes-people
January 01, 2023 - reporting programs like the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System; how to develop efficient workflows … for collecting rheumatoid arthritis measures (e.g., PRO collection for in-person versus telehealth); … measures; how to benchmark PRO quality measures through the RISE registry; and a nursing staff training … This Research is Featured in
Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program … This Research is Featured in
Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/success-stories
January 01, 2023 - Success Stories
Success Stories From the AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Program … Success stories highlight exemplary Digital Healthcare Research Program-funded projects that demonstrate … triage-tool-for-accurate-disposition-of-patients-in-disaster-response.aspx or http://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/2015/06/healthy-measures … a Health Information Technology Implementation Principal Investigator: Pascale Carayon
Measuring Quality … Health Record Principal Investigator: Denni McColm
Electronic Referrals Show Promise for Improving Quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/type-care/family-medicine
January 01, 2023 - measures. … and safety measures for the vulnerable populations served by two community health center clinics. … Impact of Health Information Technology Implementation on Diabetes Process and Outcome Measures … of diabetes care as measured by compliance with recommended processes of care and patient outcome measures … Diabetes Outcomes
Description
Evaluated the effects of a Web portal-based patient empowerment program
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs026522-schoenthaler-final-report-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - ; quality of life; and healthy living goals. … With the exception of the process measures collected in the formative phase,
study measures and timing … Measures
Formative Phase
Process measures
Patient use of mobile technology: before the focus groups … The Cronbach's alpha for the scales range from 0.69 to 0.84). … ; quality of life; and healthy living
goals.
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digital.ahrq.gov/funding-mechanism/utilizing-health-information-technology-scale-and-spread-successful-practice
January 01, 2023 - Scaling and Spreading Electronic Capture of Patient-Reported Outcomes Leveraging a National Surgical Quality … Improvement Program
Description
This project demonstrated that the large-scale electronic … collection of patient-reported outcome measures in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program … patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in primary care, with findings revealing an improvement in patient quality … patient-reported outcomes (PROs), developed a natural language processing algorithm to abstract PRO measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs021797-gillespie-final-report-2015.pdf
January 01, 2015 - were collected using validated tools related to health literacy, numeracy, as well as instruments
to measure … Measures. … The key findings for each outcome measure are described here. … The Emory groups had a higher level of facility and
familiarity with computer-based programs compared … Measures.
Limitations.
6.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/ahrq-health-information-technology-portfolio-2011-annual-report.pdf
January 01, 2011 - measures
in ambulatory care settings, automating
quality measurement, demonstrating the
ability of … electronic data systems to expand
potential safety and quality measures, and
demonstrating improved … Developing and Using Valid Clinical Quality
Measures for Health Information Technology
with Health … Therefore, the ability to
accurately measure quality from EHR data is
important and presents a significant … EHR data and
found the overall reliability of quality measures
to be high.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/ahrq-health-information-technology-portfolio-2012-annual-report.pdf
January 01, 2012 - The Ambulatory Safety and Quality (ASQ)
program Web page was launched in 2012. … Grants active in 2012 were awarded under the
following programs. … With the proliferation of
quality measurement and reporting programs from
health care payors and others … In July, AHRQ published Quality Measure-
ment Enabled by Health IT: Overview,
Possibilities, and Challenges … and created new,
clinical quality of care measures and demonstrated
that these measures could be reliably
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/crossing-quality-assessment-chasm-aligning-measured-and-true-quality-care
January 01, 2023 - Crossing the Quality Assessment Chasm: Aligning Measured and True Quality of Care … Program: Enabling Quality Measurement through Health IT (R18)
AHRQ Funded Amount
$806,454 … measure that ranks providers on the degree to which their patients are doing better or worse than expected … measures for diabetes. … Develop a quality measure for diabetes that accounts for patient heterogeneity in terms of baseline HbA1c
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digital.ahrq.gov/organization/american-college-surgeons
January 01, 2023 - Scaling and Spreading Electronic Capture of Patient-Reported Outcomes Leveraging a National Surgical Quality … Improvement Program
Description
This project demonstrated that the large-scale electronic … collection of patient-reported outcome measures in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
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digital.ahrq.gov/funding-mechanism/small-research-grant-improve-health-care-quality-through-health-information
January 01, 2023 - Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R03) … Handley, Margaret
Project Name
Implementation Outcomes of a Health Information Technology Program … Exchange
The impact of electronic health records on workflow and financial measures … The impact of electronic health records on workflow and financial measures in primary care practices. … Name
Economic Analysis of an Information Technology-Assisted Population-Based Cancer Screening Program
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq-dhr-2023-year-in-review.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Research and Quality
U.S. … It’s important for researchers
to measure the impact of these apps on health to provide guidance to … Challenges to using patient-reported outcome measures. … Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are designed to assess health
outcomes like quality of life … 43
measure identifies orders placed for a patient and retracted within 10
minutes, then reordered
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluating-electronic-health-record-data-use-diabetes-quality-reporting
January 01, 2023 - measures for performance measurement. … measures. … may be a particular concern given that existing quality measures are often perceived by physicians to … not accurately measure quality. … performance programs, and leadership pressure.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/ahrq-dhr-2022-year-in-review.pdf
January 01, 2022 - reporting
programs like the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System; how to
develop efficient workflows … measures; how to benchmark PRO quality
measures through the RISE registry; and a nursing staff training … Jason Adelman
RAR measures help identify errors and test interventions to
prevent them
The RAR measures … well the measures
Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program: 2022 … https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-technology-innovation-medicaid-programs
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digital.ahrq.gov/research-method/interview
January 01, 2025 - develop the American College of Rheumatology's Toolkit for implementation of rheumatoid arthritis outcome measures … develop the American College of Rheumatology's Toolkit for implementation of rheumatoid arthritis outcome measures … Improvement Program - Final Report
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/bettering-lives-utilizing-electronic-systems-blues-project-improving-diabetes
January 01, 2023 - Completed
Grant Number
R18 HS017233
Funding Mechanism(s)
Ambulatory Safety and Quality … Program: Improving Quality through Clinician Use of Health IT (R18)
AHRQ Funded Amount … facilitate patient outcomes tracking, improve provider communication, reduce medical errors, and improve quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2011. … of Impact for BLUES project Description:
A list of clinical outcome measures chosen for an AHRQ
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017160-kmetik-final-report-2009.pdf
January 01, 2009 - In a pay for reporting program, such
as the CMS PQRI or the proposed rule on the adoption and meaningful … national databases for the CMS QIO program and experienced in data abstraction from both
paper and … The rate for each quality measure
was lower than the rate reported for similar measures used in the … measure reporting and had no financial incentives for quality
reporting. … measurement programs to target reasons
and variations among patient populations.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/colorado-associated-community-health-information-exchange-cachie/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - Program: Enabling Quality Measurement Through Health Information Technology (EQM)
Grant Number … measures and reports at the patient, physician, practice, and population levels. … The project team worked with clinicians to develop consensus on the quality measures that would be required … measure reporting as a feedback mechanism to providers and practice managers. ( Not Achieved )
2010 … In addition, the project team engaged with clinician leaders regarding quality measure development and