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 aims to examine a health system’s four telehealth programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Principal Investigator: Simpson, Kit N., Harvey, Jillian BereeProject Dates: January 01, 2021 to June 30, 2023
- Description: This research evaluated a telemedicine program that allows specialist evaluation of a stroke patient in an ambulance by connecting paramedics to the specialist, and identified both facilitators and barriers to its use, with proposed remediations.Principal Investigator: Chalil Madathil, KapilProject Dates: April 01, 2019 to June 30, 2021
- Description: This research demonstrated the feasibility of using advanced decision support techniques and data segmentation to protect patients’ privacy to screen for intimate partner violence in primary care settings.Principal Investigator: Lenert, Leslie A., Rheingold, Alyssa AnnProject Dates: September 30, 2018 to July 31, 2023
- Description: The study assessed perspectives on electronic health record safety recommendations and found that physicians generally agreed with the recommendations, despite not being familiar with them.Principal Investigator: Ornstein, StevenProject Dates: September 01, 2016 to February 28, 2018
- Description: This study evaluated a smoking cessation program using interactive voice recognition technology and found that the intervention successfully reduced unplanned hospital readmissions and costs.Principal Investigator: Cartmell, Kathleen BufordProject Dates: May 01, 2015 to April 30, 2018
- Description: This project assessed quality measurement performance and electronic health record (EHR) implementation and found that EHR reminders were associated with improved performance.Principal Investigator: Ornstein, StevenProject Dates: September 01, 2013 to May 31, 2014
- Description: This project further developed the infrastructure of the Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) and enhanced its ability to conduct research to improve the primary health care system.Principal Investigator: Ornstein, StevenProject Dates: September 01, 2012 to August 31, 2017
- Description: This project synthesized what was learned from the Practice Partner Research Network - Translating Research into Practice (PPRNet-TRIP) project regarding how to use health information technology to improve quality in primary care practices.Principal Investigator: Nemeth, LynneProject Dates: May 01, 2010 to April 30, 2013
- Description: This project evaluated the potential severity of specific look-alike, sound-alike drug name substitution errors in a pediatric population and estimated the frequencies of potential look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) substitution errors.Principal Investigator: Basco, WilliamProject Dates: April 01, 2010 to March 31, 2013
- Description: This project implemented and examined the effectiveness of an electronic standing order process.Principal Investigator: Nemeth, LynneProject Dates: June 01, 2008 to July 31, 2010