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Just Released: Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program

Learn how digital healthcare technologies work best for patients, clinicians, and health systems.

AHRQ National Webinar: Digital Healthcare Innovations to Engage and Empower Patients in Their Care

October 11, 2023 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM ET

Supporting Healthcare Decisions Aligned with Patient Needs, Preferences & Values

Access resources to help design, develop, and implement patient-centered clinical decision support.

Apply to Win the AHRQ Challenge: Designing the Optimal Future State of CDS Connect

Submit your ideas on how to advance the functionality, value, and accessibility of AHRQ’s CDS Connect.

AHRQ Health Scientist Administrator Vacancy: Digital Healthcare Research and Practice Improvement

Apply by October 16. View the full announcement on USAJOBs (AHRQ-CEPI-23-DE-12136318).

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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Latest Research Findings

New measures to identify near-miss medication errors are a major advancement in patient safety and can help healthcare systems make ordering even safer.

Clinical decision support that can be implemented in different types of electronic health records has the potential to scale evidence-based practice across healthcare systems.

Development of a toolkit to facilitate the scale and spread of using patient-reported outcomes among rheumatoid arthritis patients fills an existing gap in national resources to provide support to rheumatologists.

A shared decision-making tool to support the appropriate use of low-dose computed tomography screening has the potential to prevent 10,000 or more lung cancer deaths annually in the United States.

Using the clinical decision support system Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Adults Discharged from the Emergency Department significantly reduces the prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications in the emergency department setting.

Implementing CancelRx, an e-prescribing tool to electronically communicate medication discontinuation orders between electronic health records and pharmacies, showed an immediate and persistent reduction in prescriptions that were dispensed after discontinuation.

Tools like ASPIRE that integrate fall prevention clinical decision support and patient resources may better support patient self-care and adoption of evidence-based recommendations.

A mobile application designed to facilitate asthma self-management and shared decision making through patient-reported outcomes can improve care, asthma control, and knowledge, as well as decrease healthcare utilization.

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Funded Projects

Search the entire portfolio of AHRQ-funded digital healthcare research.

Research Publications

Search a central repository for publications resulting from AHRQ-funded digital healthcare research.

Funded Projects Map

Identify AHRQ-funded digital healthcare research projects by clicking on a state.

Funding Opportunities

Learn about the AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research funding opportunities.

National Webinars

View upcoming or past events discussing findings from AHRQ-funded digital healthcare research.