Digital Healthcare Research

Put Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support (CDS) into Practice

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Program Impact: Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Innovation

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

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About AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program

The Digital Healthcare Research Program’s mission is to determine how components of the digital healthcare ecosystem can best come together to positively affect healthcare delivery and create value for patients and their families.

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News & Events

BLOG HIGHLIGHT | Shaping the Future of Patient Empowerment and Care Delivery Through Digital Healthcare Research
BLOG SERIES | Anniversary Blog Series
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Machine learning for predicting waitlist mortality in pediatric heart transplantation.
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Allergy alerting and overrides for opioid analogues across two health systems.
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence in patient portal messaging in primary care.
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Checklist approach to developing and implementing AI in clinical settings: Instrument development study.
FEATURED PUBLICATION | Building patient-facing technology: A REDCap-based approach.

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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