AHRQ Funded Projects
Search the entire portfolio of AHRQ-funded digital healthcare research projects. Projects can be identified by technology studied, medical condition, population, status of the project, principal investigator, organization, funding mechanism and location.
- Description: This research will develop and evaluate the Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (myPOSH) mobile application that supports care transitions and the needs of older adults undergoing surgery and their care partners.Principal Investigator: Bitton, Asaf, Brindle, Mary E.Project Dates: September 01, 2023 to June 30, 2028
- Description: This research will develop and evaluate a machine learning-augmented and telemedicine-augmented sociotechnical intervention for postoperative handoffs to reduce the risks of patient complications and improve patient-centered care.Principal Investigator: Abraham, JoannaProject Dates: April 01, 2023 to March 31, 2028
- Description: This study will develop, evaluate, and disseminate a multicomponent intervention including a mobile health application and digital navigator training to support safe care transitions for patients with multiple chronic conditions.Principal Investigator: Samal, Lipika, Dykes, PatriciaProject Dates: September 30, 2022 to July 31, 2027
- Description: This research will refine a current health information exchange platform to improve data exchange for inter-hospital transfers, evaluate its impact, and create a dissemination toolkit so that others may adopt this model.Principal Investigator: Mueller, StephanieProject Dates: August 01, 2022 to May 31, 2027
- Description: This research will develop and test novel approaches for using electronic health record metadata to characterize and evaluate hospital discharge planning practices, with the long-term goal of providing tools to monitor and strengthen specific behaviors within discharge workflows that optimize post-acute transitions of care.Principal Investigator: Cross, DoriProject Dates: April 01, 2022 to January 31, 2025
- Description: This research aims to design and develop novel wearable technologies that can improve care coordination during prehospital encounters and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes and achieve patient-centered care delivery and coordination.Principal Investigator: Zhang, ZhanProject Dates: September 30, 2021 to September 29, 2024
- Description: This research will use digital health tools leveraging patient-reported outcomes and data from electronic health records to engage individuals with multiple chronic conditions to improve understanding of individualized risk of adverse events during care transitions.Principal Investigator: Dalal, Anuj K.Project Dates: September 30, 2021 to August 31, 2026
- Description: This research will study the effectiveness of a virtual in-home program designed to reduce hospital readmissions among COPD patients post-hospitalization.Principal Investigator: Press, Valerie G., Abraham, Joanna, Arora, VineetProject Dates: September 10, 2021 to August 31, 2026
- Description: This research will examine the factors affecting cancer patients’ use of an electronic patient safety event reporting system to communicate adverse medication-related events to their care team.Principal Investigator: Jiang, Yun, Gong, YangProject Dates: July 01, 2021 to June 30, 2026
- Description: This research will integrate cross-sector care alerts and interoperable personalized care planning into the existing Coordinating Transitions Intervention (CTI) tool and evaluate the impact of the revised tool on patient burden, care team collaboration, and utilization value for high-need, high-cost patients.Principal Investigator: Hewner, SharonProject Dates: April 01, 2021 to March 31, 2026