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Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program: 2022 Year in Review

"At the Digital Healthcare Research Program, our work is driven by a vision in which every patient and care team has ready access to health data and knowledge at the point of care. Digital healthcare technologies hold the key to this vision, and research holds the key to ensuring that these technologies advance care quality, safety, and effectiveness."

Chris Dymek, Ed.D.

Director, Digital Healthcare Research Division

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Engaging and Empowering Patients

Optimizing Care Delivery for Clinicians

Supporting Health Systems in Advancing Care Delivery

Research Themes and Findings

The DHR program funds research that demonstrates how digital healthcare solutions can be designed and implemented to improve healthcare system performance and patient health outcomes.

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Research Themes

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Research Stories

Completed Research
A Clinical Decision Support Tool for Preventing Falls
Emerging Research
A Machine Learning Algorithm to Improve the Use of Interpreters for Hospitalized Patients with Complex Care Needs
Emerging Research
A Patient-Facing App to Improve Care Transitions from Hospital to Home
Completed Research
ASTHMAXcel PRO Mobile Application to Support Asthma Chronic Disease Management
Completed Research
Automated Retract-and-Reorder Measures to Improve Medication Safety
Completed Research
Closing the Communication Gap Between Prescribers and Pharmacists to Decrease Medication Safety Risks
Emerging Research
Continuous Predictive Analytics Monitoring to Improve Care for At-Risk Patients with Cardiac Disease
Completed Research
Decision Precision+: Increasing Lung Cancer Screening for At-Risk Patients
Completed Research
Decision Support in the Emergency Department to Improve Medication Safety for Older Adults
Emerging Research
Evaluation of the SCaling AcceptabLE cDs (SCALED) Approach of Interoperable Clinical Decision Support for Venous Thromboembolism Prevention
Completed Research
Making Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Implementable in Different Electronic Health Records
Emerging Research
Safer Inter-Hospital Transfers by Improving Access to Health Information
Completed Research
Spreading and Scaling Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Emerging Research
Technology to Support Personalized Care Decisions for Breast Cancer Treatment
Emerging Research
Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Improve Care by Critical Care Pharmacists
Emerging Research
Use of Artificial Intelligence to Support Same-Day Breast Cancer Diagnostic Testing