About the Report
This Year in Review report summarizes the research activities and outcomes funded by the AHRQ Health IT Program in 2018. The objective of this report is to support AHRQ stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers, to:
- Learn about the goals of Health IT Program-funded research.
- Discover the innovative health technologies developed and tested by AHRQ-funded researchers, including new and emerging research in 2018.
- Understand how the Health IT Program improves healthcare quality and safety at the patient, provider, and health systems levels.
- Access learnings and products disseminated by AHRQ’s health IT-funded researchers in support of knowledge transfer and replication of successful health IT strategies that improve patient safety and healthcare quality.