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: This research will adapt an existing interoperable clinical decision support (CDS) tool for prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) to those with traumatic brain injury, scale it using an implementation strategy called SCALED (Scaling AcceptabLE cDs), and evaluate that approach to ensure that CDS tools are based on the most current evidence.Principal Investigator: Tignanelli, Christopher J., Melton-Meaux, GenevieveProject Dates: August 05, 2022 to July 31, 2025
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Description: This research will test and validate a machine learning predictive analytic intervention to optimize the timely and appropriate use of interpreters for hospitalized patients with language barriers and complex care needs.Principal Investigator: Barwise, Amelia K.Project Dates: May 01, 2022 to April 30, 2024
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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 March 31, 2024
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Description: This research study will evaluate interoperability tools for vaccination data exchange across information systems for infectious disease surveillance, vaccinations, and electronic health records to facilitate infectious disease surveillance and quality of healthcare.Principal Investigator: Rajamani, SripriyaProject Dates: September 30, 2021 to September 29, 2023
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Description: The aim of this research is to implement a clinical decision support tool to provide clinicians patient-specific and evidence-based treatment recommendations regarding the recognition and management of high blood pressure and hypertension in children and adolescents.Principal Investigator: Kharbanda, Elyse, Benziger, CatherineProject Dates: September 30, 2020 to July 31, 2025
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Description: This research’s goal is to show that interoperability, including adoption of regional health information exchanges, improves mortality rates and care efficiency at the population and patient levels.Principal Investigator: Usher, Michael G.Project Dates: April 01, 2019 to January 31, 2023
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Description: This project will identify orthopedic clinical outcome measures that are most important to patients, and study the impact on satisfaction and outcomes when this information is provided to patients and their doctors.Principal Investigator: Solberg, LeifProject Dates: September 30, 2017 to July 31, 2023
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Description: This project created a natural language processing-enabled clinical decision support system to pull patient information and determine recommendations for cervical cancer screening, and demonstrated improvement in overall screening and surveillance rates.Principal Investigator: Chaudhry, RajeevProject Dates: September 30, 2014 to November 29, 2016
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Discovery and Visualization of New Information from Clinical Reports in the Electronic Health Record
Description: The project team developed automated methods for identifying relevant new information versus redundant information in electronic health record clinical notes.Principal Investigator: Melton-Meaux, GenevieveProject Dates: July 01, 2013 to September 29, 2018 -
Description: This study evaluated Heart360, a mobile health management tool to improve blood pressure monitoring, medication management, and provider communication for stroke survivors.Principal Investigator: Lakshminarayan, KamakshiProject Dates: September 30, 2012 to September 29, 2015