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 project will evaluate and compare different tools within electronic health records to assist pediatric primary care clinicians with providing higher quality childhood obesity care to help slow weight gain in children with obesity.Principal Investigator: Sharifi, Mahnoos H.Project Dates: September 15, 2016 to January 31, 2020
- Description: This project developed the Patient-Centered Virtual Multimedia Interactive Informed Consent tool and found that patients who used the tool had increased knowledge and higher satisfaction than control patients.Principal Investigator: Abujarad, FuadProject Dates: May 01, 2015 to April 30, 2018
- Description: This project studied the influence of social networks on technology implementation and found that clinicians’ networks influence beliefs and use of the electronic medical records.Principal Investigator: Yuan, ChristinaProject Dates: September 01, 2013 to May 31, 2015
- Description: This project developed and piloted a patient-centered clinical decision support tool that was used in emergency department management of minor head injury and found high patient and clinician satisfaction and usability.Principal Investigator: Melnick, EdwardProject Dates: May 09, 2013 to April 30, 2018
- Description: This project designed a shared decisionmaking support aid for vaginal birth after Caesarean section and concluded that the tool was feasible to implement for a diverse patient population.Principal Investigator: Shorten, AllisonProject Dates: April 01, 2013 to July 31, 2016
- Description: This project developed and validated a new disability diagnostic tool that allowed emergency department physicians to connect patients to better healthcare referrals and proper long-term care services.Principal Investigator: Post, LoriProject Dates: August 01, 2010 to May 31, 2016
- Description: This project was a collaboration effort to design, develop, implement, and demonstrate clinical decision support (CDS) applications using systematic and replicable processes for knowledge transformation and CDS design.Principal Investigator: Shiffman, Richard N.Project Dates: March 01, 2008 to April 30, 2012
- Description: This project evaluated how the implementation of a secure e-mail messaging (e-messaging) system between clinicians and patients affects provider efficiency, utilization of emergency department for medication refills, and patients’ satisfaction.Principal Investigator: Hsiao, Allen L.Project Dates: September 01, 2007 to September 30, 2009
- Description: This study was designed to reduce guideline ambiguities, improve efficiency, and create and evaluate tools to facilitate the writing of comprehensive and implementable guidelines.Principal Investigator: Shiffman, Richard N.Project Dates: September 30, 2006 to February 28, 2012
- Description: Thirty-three states and 1 territory formed the HISPC, which aims to address the privacy and security challenges presented by electronic health information exchange through multi-state collaboration. With the support of its state or territorial governor, each team engaged a steering committee and a range of local stakeholders to 1) assess variations in organization-level business policies and state laws that affect health information exchange; 2) identify and propose practical solutions, while preserving the privacy and security requirements in applicable Federal and State laws and 3) develop detailed plans to implement solutions.Principal Investigator: Lynch, JohnProject Dates: September 30, 2005 to December 31, 2007