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2019 Year in Review | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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2019 Year in Review
About this Report
This Year in Review report summarizes the research activities … The objective of the report is to support AHRQ stakeholders, including clinicians, health systems, policymakers … , researchers, and patients to:
Learn about the goals of research funded by the Digital Healthcare Research … in the ED to Improve Geriatric Prescribing Practices
Tailoring Visits Using Person-Specific Patient-Reported … patient-reported outcomes, both of which significantly impact and improve quality of care.
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Executive Summary | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
This Year in Review report outlines the innovative health services research funded by the Digital Healthcare … patient-reported outcomes into clinical care, and use of telehealth and telemedicine to improve access … New York University School of Medicine
Heather Gold and Enrico Bertini
Optimization of Patient-Reported … how to collect and use patient-reported outcomes (PROs) using digital methods. … Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care
Lastly, since dissemination of research findings is critical
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Disseminating Knowledge and Research Findings at Conferences | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
This popular Biomedical and Health Informatics Year in Review session is informed by AMIA’s 20 Working … The 2019 AMIA Year in Review session highlighted two of their publications. … In the first paper, in order to research whether an electronic medication review tool used by patients … engage patients in the medication reconciliation process, patients were randomized to use the tool to review … Clinical Decision Support Working Group
The final AHRQ-funded work highlighted during AMIA’s Year in Review
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AHRQ Health Information Technology Research - 2018 Year in Review
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The rapid
digitization of health data with health IT in the United States has created unprecedented … EHR usability can adversely affect safety among pediatric
patients, using data from three large academic … Clinicians were then asked to test the prototype by entering
information from eight test cases into … A randomized controlled trial conducted using test
cases in a laboratory environment suggest that the … The AMIA Year in Review session highlighted his
systematic review on the use of smartphone apps to change
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Events | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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Events
The digital healthcare ecosystem changes rapidly, and a variety of organizations sponsor … Improve Healthcare Quality
June 9, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm EDT
A National Web Conference on the Role of … Support Authoring Tool
February 7, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST
A National Web Conference on the Role of … Support (PCCDS) Conference
October 3, 2017 - 8:00am to 5:00pm EDT
A National Web Conference on Use of … - 2:30pm to 4:00pm EDT
A National Web Conference on Optimizing the Presentation and Visualization of
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Director's Corner | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
how EHR usability can adversely affect safety among pediatric patients, using data from three large academic … Patient-Reported Outcomes
Implementation and Evaluation of New Health Information Technology (IT) Strategies … Advancing the Collection and Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes through Health Information Technology Project … Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) offer a complementary perspective to that of clinician assessments, … AHRQ’s initial investment to create the DARTNet network met a critical need and led to its rapid growth
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Patient Reminders and Notifications (Washington) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. … Department of Health and Human Services. … The specific aims of the project were as follows:
Establish the needs and preferences of patients for … rapid prototyping and other user-centered design methods to clarify core design elements and establish … No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S.
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Pediatric Patient Engagement as a Criteria for Meaningful Use Stage 3 (Pennsylvania) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. … Department of Health and Human Services. … While patient portal use has increased in recent years, portal adoption has not been rapid, and overall … rates of use remain low. … No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S.
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Understanding Development Methods from Other Industries to Improve the Design of Consumer Health Information Technology (Maryland) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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Conduct an environmental scan and review of relevant grey literature to locate research, … (Achieved)
Conduct an environmental scan and review of relevant grey literature to locate research, … Preliminary Impact and Findings: As a result of the grey literature review and environmental scan, the … The combination of the environmental scan, literature review, TEP, and key informant interviews will … consumer health IT. ( Ongoing )
Conduct an environmental scan and review of relevant grey literature
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Impact of Health Information Technology on Primary Care Workflow and Financial Measures (Texas) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. … The data in the literature on these barriers are based on expert opinion and the experience of academic … This research sought to estimate the cost and workflow impact of rapid implementation for 26 primary … The results observed in this study compare to other reports in the literature suggesting that the effects … Grantee's Most Recent Self-Reported Quarterly Status (as of December 2010): Project progress is reported
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Electronic Support for Public Health - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) (Massachusetts) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. … Medicine
Summary:
Adverse events from vaccines are common but underreported, with less than one percent reported … the health of the public. … system using electronic medical record (EMR) data to detect and securely report cases of statutory notifiable … Grantee's Most Recent Self-Reported Quarterly Status (as of September 2010): The randomized trial was
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2019 Year In Review … This Year in Review report summarizes the research activities and outcomes funded by the AHRQ Digital … , researchers, and patients to:
Learn about the goals of research funded by the Digital Healthcare Research … Go to the Digital Version Download the PDF Version (6.02 MB)
2018 Year in Review
This Year in Review … , and policymakers, to:
Learn about the goals of Digital Healthcare Research Program-funded research
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Health Information Technology Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (Massachusetts) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
More than a third of patients reported symptoms and were transferred to the pharmacist, who assessed … of nonformulary medication approvals in an academic medical center. … Review of nonformulary medication approvals in an academic medical center. … medical informatics on patient satisfaction: a USA-based literature review. … The impact of medical informatics on patient satisfaction: a USA-based literature review.
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Developing Evidence-Based, User-Centered Design and Implementation Guidelines to Improve Health Information Technology Usability (Maryland) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
safety event review and algorithm-based natural language processing to determine which safety events … A systematic review to identify usability and safety challenges and practices during electronic health … A systematic review to identify usability and safety challenges and practices during electronic health … how EHR usability can adversely affect safety among pediatric patients, using data from three large academic … This NLP algorithm can identify and code a reported safety event as related or not related to an EHR
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Blecker, Saul B. | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
Effect of hospital readmission reduction on patients at low, medium, and high risk of readmission in … testing with imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis. … Appropriate use of cardiac stress testing with imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis. … Review. PMID: 27536775. Principal Investigator: Blecker, Saul B. … Early identification of patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
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Infants | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
Review. PMID: 30447806. … Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NEC-zero recommendations from scoping review … of evidence to prevent and foster timely recognition of necrotizing enterocolitis. … NEC-zero recommendations from scoping review of evidence to prevent and foster timely recognition of … of communication in the NICU.
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HopScore: An Electronic Outcomes-Based Emergency Triage System (Maryland) | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. … Triage performance in emergency medicine: a systematic review. … Triage performance in emergency medicine: a systematic review. … Outcomes-Based Emergency Triage System Document Type: Journal Publication Research Method: Systematic Review … No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S.
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Public Health Informatics | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
(Prepared by the University of Utah under Grant No. K08 HS018538). … Name: Using Health Information Technology to Support Population-Based Clinical Practice
A systematic review … of predictive modeling for bronchiolitis. … A systematic review of predictive modeling for bronchiolitis. Int J Med Inform 2014;83(10):691–714. … (Prepared by the Trustees of Columbia University under Grant No. R18 HS022667).
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Gastrointestinal Disease | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
using patient-reported outcomes for cirrhosis collected with Patient Buddy and EncephalApp on hospital … Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NEC-zero recommendations from scoping review … of evidence to prevent and foster timely recognition of necrotizing enterocolitis. … NEC-zero recommendations from scoping review of evidence to prevent and foster timely recognition of … of communication in the NICU.
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Personal Health Record | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
(Prepared by the University of Nebraska Medical Center under Grant No. R01 HS022110). … [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 30189000. … Use of the multidimensional health locus of control to predict information-seeking behaviors and health-related … Practices for Maternal-Fetal Care
Patient portal use and experience among older adults: systematic review … Patient portal use and experience among older adults: systematic review.