Digital Healthcare Research

AHRQ National Webinar: Empowering Patients to Change Behavior Using Digital Healthcare Tools

July 17, 2025 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm ET

Program Impact: Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Innovation

Discover ways digital healthcare research is powering real-world solutions.

Annual Report: Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program

Examine the real-world use of digital healthcare technologies to advance healthcare delivery and patient health outcomes.

JAMIA Article Captures DHR's 20 Years of Advancing Innovation and Discovery

Read about DHR efforts over the last two decades transforming healthcare and what lies ahead.

Honoring 20 Years of Digital Health Innovation and Excellence

About AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program

AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program's mission is to determine how the various components of the ever-evolving digital healthcare ecosystem can best come together to positively affect healthcare delivery and create value for patients and their families.

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JULY WEBINAR | AHRQ National Webinar: Empowering Patients to Change Behavior Using Digital Healthcare Tools
BLOG HIGHLIGHT | Shaping the Future of Patient Empowerment and Care Delivery Through Digital Healthcare Research
BLOG SERIES | Anniversary Blog Series
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Clusters of health-related social needs among adult primary care patients.
FEATURED PUBLICATION | New performance measurement framework for realizing patient-centered clinical decision support: Qualitative development study
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Enhancing patient engagement and understanding: is providing direct access to laboratory results through patient portals adequate?
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Preliminary analysis of the impact of lab results on large language model generated differential diagnoses

Latest Research Findings

Patient photos displayed in the electronic health record significantly reduce wrong-patient order errors and improve patient safety.

An intervention with new tools and formalized procedures to screen for intimate partner violence greatly increased the number of patients identified as experiencing or at risk for experiencing domestic violence.

Facilitating data exchange between public health and clinical care information systems leads to efficiencies in vaccination data access and staff effort, resulting in cost savings, improved data informed decision making, and better surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Hybrid models of care can expand access to pediatric physiatry care for children with cerebral palsy and other special healthcare needs in rural communities and areas where specialty providers are scarce.

Changing the focus of patient-reported outcomes to be centered on a patient’s individual goals and preferences has the potential to improve care.

A web-based application that incorporates patient and caregiver preferences helps patients evaluate whether they can safely receive hospital-level care at home.

By individualizing drug–drug interaction alerts to individual patient circumstances, providers can deliver more tailored care for patients at risk for harm.

Working closely with patients to design and implement clinical decision support is important. The uptake of evidence into clinical practice depends on trust, interoperability, and awareness of patient preferences and goals.

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