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.
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Description: The research team will implement and evaluate an integration application that incorporates relevant health information exchange data directly into the electronic health record in the emergency department.Principal Investigator: Schleyer, TitusProject Dates: September 30, 2020 to September 29, 2024
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Description: This research assessed the use of a health information exchange system in emergency department settings, finding that although overall usage is relatively low, additional functionalities such as single sign on add value to clinical decision making and enable faster retrieval of patient records from external sources compared to traditional methods when embedded into existing workflows.Principal Investigator: Dixon, BrianProject Dates: September 01, 2017 to August 31, 2020
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Description: This research demonstrated primary care providers’ complementary use of “push” and “pull” health information exchange technologies to meet their information needs and provides evidence that “pull” exchange reduces potentially avoidable healthcare utilization.Principal Investigator: Vest, Joshua RyanProject Dates: September 30, 2016 to September 29, 2019
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Description: In this study, researchers created new electronic health record-based decision support tools that guide clinicians’ perceptions and judgments of noncancer pain in ways that lead to increased use of guideline-based patient assessment and treatment of pain.Principal Investigator: Harle, Christopher AlbertProject Dates: September 30, 2015 to July 31, 2020
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Description: This project integrated a validated anxiety-specific screening tool in an existing clinical decision support system and tested it with a randomized feasibility pilot that found the tool did not increase detection of anxiety in pediatric primary care.Principal Investigator: Bauer, Nerissa San LuisProject Dates: September 01, 2015 to August 31, 2018
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Description: This project expanded and modified the Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation (CHICA) system to assist pediatricians in identifying and managing four common medical-legal problems that may adversely impact child health, and found initial findings to be inconclusive.Principal Investigator: Gilbert, AmyProject Dates: September 30, 2012 to July 31, 2016
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Description: This project implemented clinical decision support and clinical messaging to improve clinician reporting of notifiable conditions to public health agencies.Principal Investigator: Dixon, BrianProject Dates: September 30, 2011 to September 29, 2017
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Description: Created a secure infrastructure for communication among providers to allow electronic sharing of patient clinical information with hospitals and other physicians/health providers in the county, region, and State; also assessed the effectiveness of the system in improving workflow, timeliness and completeness of information, patient safety, continuity of care, and health outcomes.Principal Investigator: Aders, DeborahProject Dates: September 30, 2004 to September 29, 2007
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Description: The Indiana Network for Patient Care, an operational health information exchange (HIE) in central Indiana, is one of six AHRQ sponsored State and Regional demonstration projects begun in late 2004 and early 2005 to create State or regional HIEs.Principal Investigator: Overhage, MarcProject Dates: September 01, 2004 to July 31, 2010