Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

February 5 2013 20130205

New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls

December 2 2008 20081202

Online Tools Help Patients Find Good Health Information

Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• Patient Web Portals To Improve Diabetes Outcomes: A Systematic Review

Clinicians & Providers

• A Compendium of Selected Public Health Data Sources
• AHRQ Publication Provides Foundation for Health Informatics Curriculum
• Access the Health Information Technology site
• Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
• Development of Electronic Transition Tools for Home Health Care
• Health Information Systems in Small Practices
• Health Information Technology
• Health Information Technology
• Health Information Technology: Turning the Patient-centered Medical Home from Concept to Reality
• Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications
• Patient Web Portals To Improve Diabetes Outcomes: A Systematic Review
• Patient-Centered Care Through Health IT
• Telemedicine, Update
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Access the Health Information Technology site
• Development of Electronic Transition Tools for Home Health Care
• Health Information Technology
• On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Policymaker Resources

• Access the Health Information Technology site
• Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
• Health Information Systems in Small Practices
• Health Information Technology
• Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization
• Reducing Disparities in Health Care Quality in Underresourced Settings
• State and Regional Demonstration Project
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Value and Sustainability in Health IT

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

AHRQ Health Information Technology Programs-Update 2005-06

September 1 2012 20120901

Health Information Technology: Overview

September 1 2012 20120901

State and Regional Demonstration Project

Full Research Reports

September 1 2007 20070901

Development of Electronic Transition Tools for Home Health Care

December 1 1999 19991201

Health Care Informatics Standards Activities of Selected Federal Agencies

May 1 1997 19970501

A Compendium of Selected Public Health Data Sources

Other Research & Data

• AHRQ Publication Provides Foundation for Health Informatics Curriculum
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• AHRQ-Funded Research in Health Information Technology Impacts Care in Developing Countries
• Access the Health Information Technology site
• Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
• Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
• Bon Secours Health System
• Colorado Health Information Exchange Made Possible by AHRQ Contract
• Covisint DocSite
• Data Infrastructure Awards
• East Liberty Family Health Center; East End Community Health Center
• East Tennessee State University Medical Library
• Expert Panel Meeting: Health Information Technology
• Federal Health Care Informatics Standards Activities
• Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
• Health Information Systems in Small Practices
• Health Information Technology
• Healthcare Information Technology Research (HITR) Study Section Member
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California; Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, California
• Maine Telehealth Network
• Medical Care Research and Review: Supplement
• Michigan State University
• National Taiwan University Hospital
• National Taiwan University Hospital
• NextGen Healthcare
• Northwest MedStar
• OpenMRS Consortium
• Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization
• Patient Web Portals To Improve Diabetes Outcomes: A Systematic Review
• Piedmont Healthcare
• Primary Care Leader Benefits From AHRQ-Seeded Health Information Exchange
• Reducing Disparities in Health Care Quality in Underresourced Settings
• Reliant Medical Group/HealthAlliance Hospital Advance Health IT Through Information Exchange
• Schuyler Ridge Nursing Home Implements On-Time Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care
• Spanish Catholic Center
• St. Barnabas Rehabilitation and Continuing Care Center Implements On-Time Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care
• Sub-Saharan Africa HIV/AIDS Clinics
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Tough questions get answers through health IT
• Virginia Health Information
• Virginia Health Information
• Watson Clinic
• Wichita State University: College of Health Professions
• integrated Physician Network

Press Releases

February 6 2013 20130206

New Children's Electronic Health Record Format Announced

June 3 2010 20100603

Innovative Software Cuts Costs and Time for States to Report Hospital Quality Information to the Public

May 30 2010 20100530

AHRQ Study Shows Using Bar-Code Technology with eMAR Reduces Medication Administration and Transcription Errors

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

February 5 2013 20130205

New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls

December 2 2008 20081202

Online Tools Help Patients Find Good Health Information

Other News & Events

• 1 in 10 computer-generated prescriptions include at least one error
• A "diabetes dashboard" screen helps clinicians quickly and accurately access patient data needed for quality diabetes care
• A customized computer drug alert requiring active provider response is no more effective than a passive alert
• AHRQ Director's Commentary Provides Insight on Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform
• AHRQ Health IT Portfolio 2009 Annual Report Now Available
• AHRQ Study Shows Using Bar-code Technology with eMAR Reduces Medication Errors
• AHRQ Tools Support Teamwork and Patient Safety Awareness Week
• AHRQ expert discusses trends and challenges in health information technology
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• AHRQ's health IT 2010 annual report is available
• Acceptance of "smart" intravenous infusion pumps is growing among nurses, but challenges remain
• Assessment of hospital computerized physician order entry systems finds many medication errors are missed
• Automated quality measures can be used to improve asthma care
• Automated screening of patient electronic medical records is only the first step to identifying a medication problem
• Careful design of personal health records can improve the delivery of preventive care
• Clinical decision support systems are effective but research is needed to promote widespread use
• Clinical inertia may represent good clinical judgment in hypertension telemanagement
• Clinical informatics monitoring tool helps reduce adverse drug events in nursing home settings
• Clinicians' adoption and use of electronic prescribing is likely linked to their views on technology
• Compliance is low for computer alerts recommending conversion from intravenous to oral medications
• Computer display helps reduce the rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia in surgical intensive care units
• Computer system compares well with clinicians in assessing, but not treating children with asthma
• Computerized clinical decision support may promote contraceptive counseling for women prescribed teratogenic medications
• Computerized clinical decision support produces only modest savings for nursing home residents with impaired kidney function
• Computerized decisionmaking systems improve physician prescribing for long-term-care residents
• Computerized provider order entry significantly reduces medication err
• Decision support in the electronic record improves asthma care
• Decision support intervention prompts clinicians to update patients' problem lists in their medical records
• Decision support may aid emergency physicians in interpreting benign from serious eye movement patterns in dizzy patients
• Dr. Atul Gawande Discusses Challenges in Health Care with Attendees at AHRQ's Annual Conference
• Drug interaction decision support software has limitations and pharmacists' knowledge of support features is limited
• Drug monitoring may be improved by the use of health information technology and clinical pharmacists
• Duplicate medication order errors increase after computerized provider order entry is implemented
• E-prescribing for managing medication refills has not reached its full potential
• E-prescribing systems within electronic health records reduce ambulatory prescribing errors in community-based practices
• Electronic health record decision support improves the care of children with ADHD
• Electronic health records can help detect diagnostic errors in primary care
• Electronic health records help researchers harness data
• Electronic health records improve diabetes care and outcomes
• Electronic health records improve nursing care, coordination, and patient safety
• Electronic health records in community health centers provide a better picture of care than insurance claims data
• Electronic medical record boosts documentation of test results, but still falls short for patient notification and test followup
• Electronic medical records reduce negative outcomes and related costs after patient safety events occur
• Electronic prescribing improves safety, but with a small increase in physician time
• Electronic prescribing with clinical decision support reduces medication errors in community-based practices
• Electronic standing orders increase delivery of preventive services
• Evidence report examines health IT impact on medication management
• Expert workshop discusses disparities in health care quality and role of health IT in underresourced settings
• From the Director
• From the Director
• HHS Releases National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Report
• Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, But Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist, According to New AHRQ Reports
• Health Information Technology
• Health Information Technology Portfolio
• Health Information Technology: Turning the Patient-Centered Medical Home from Concept to Reality
• Health Services Research extends call for papers on health IT
• Health information exchange can save money by reducing admissions from the emergency department
• Health information technology improves care and saves lives
• Health information technology improves the timely availability of diagnostic information
• Health information technology-supported quality improvement initiative reduces some ambulatory care disparities
• Hospital discharge software slightly boosts patient and outpatient physician satisfaction
• Human factors challenges in home health care
• Human-computer interaction evaluation can inform the redesign of computerized clinical reminders
• ICU nurses show increasing acceptance of electronic health records
• Image: A School's telehealth assistant transmits a boy's ear images to his doctor.
• Innovations show the benefits of using phone-based care management
• Internet-based personal health records helpful to most HIV/AIDS patients who used them
• Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Cuts Deaths Among Medicare Patients in Michigan Intensive Care Units
• Less than half of pharmacy computer systems studied correctly identified drug-drug interactions
• Longer use of electronic health records is not linked to improved quality of care
• Many challenges remain in the design and use of consumer health informatics interventions
• Medicaid providers face common barriers to meaningful use
• Medication changes are not always documented properly in physician notes or the electronic medical record
• Nearly 1 in 10 outpatient computerized prescriptions contains errors
• New AHRQ Safety Culture Report Shows Strengths, Areas for More Effort in Nursing Homes
• New AHRQ Toolkit Helps Medical Practices Examine the Impact of Health IT on Workflow
• New Health IT Common Format for Adverse Event Reporting
• New Health IT Common Format for adverse event reporting
• New health information technology funding opportunity on advancing health services through system modeling research
• New report examines impact of health information technology on workflow in outpatient settings
• New study finds e-prescribing is safe and efficient, but barriers remain
• New toolkit helps medical practices examine the impact of health IT on workflow
• Nursing home users of information technology start to see its benefits
• Older, busier clinicians who see complex patients are more likely to use novel electronic health record (EHR) functions
• Paper previsit reminders for doctors do not add value to electronic reminders from an electronic health record system
• Parental reports more accurate than electronic health records in documenting child diet and exercise counseling
• Parents find telemedicine care of children in school and childcare to be helpful and convenient
• Parents using electronic kiosk provide more accurate clinical information than emergency room providers
• Patient Web portals improve diabetes care and outcomes
• Patients treated for heart failure in the emergency department fare better if there is an electronic health record available
• Patients with type 2 diabetes express mixed reactions to a mobile phone and Web-based disease management program
• Pediatric care providers identify desired characteristics for computerized flu vaccination alerts
• Pharmacists have limited awareness of the capabilities of their pharmacy information systems
• Physicians can use 10 strategies to manage abnormal test result alerts in electronic health records
• Physicians more reluctant to deactivate some life-sustaining devices than others
• Physicians optimistic about potential for electronic prescribing but barriers to adoption still exist
• Physicians support health information exchange but are concerned about paying monthly fees
• Physicians weigh the costs and benefits of integrating e-prescribing systems with electronic health records
• Physicians who use electronic health records more intensively are more likely to use patient registries to improve care
• Physicians with electronic health records are more able to generate patient registries
• Physicians' reasons for deviating from quality guidelines are usually justified
• Physicians' unfamiliarity with electronic personal health records may slow their adoption
• Primary care doctors prefer additional medical record information when making decisions about patient test results
• Primary care organizational characteristics are linked to the self-management behaviors of patients with diabetes
• Primary care physicians like e-prescribing systems, but make little use of their advanced features
• Primary care practices can boost clinical preventive services with electronic health records and quality improvement support
• Providers perceive e-prescribing as being very efficient
• Provision of personal digital assistants alone does not help providers avoid drug-drug interactions
• Recommendations on rounding pediatric doses may improve e-prescribing while reducing risk of adverse drug events
• Regional health information exchanges must do more to attract small practices
• Report and designer's guide outlines the role of human factors in home health care
• Report shows physicians view e-prescribing features as cumbersome
• Research shows health IT enables quality measurement, but obstacles remain
• Researchers develop a task list to evaluate primary care workflow
• Rural health care providers in California look to Telehealth to supply the training needed to manage childhood obesity
• Self-management programs for patients with diabetes have a positive impact
• Sending health maintenance reminders to personal health records helps patients adhere to some screenings
• Social media use is one of many innovations in care delivery transforming the frontlines of care
• Specific primary care strategies may improve medication safety
• Study describes challenges of using electronic health record-derived measurements for quality reporting
• Study finds personal health records do not impact hypertension care
• Study identifies costs of implementing electronic health records in network of physician practices
• Study uncovers the time spent on writing and viewing hospital electronic health records
• Teamwork key to long-term sustainability of health IT systems
• Telemedicine dermatology consultations change diagnoses and improve outcomes
• Three Publications Highlight Human Factors Research
• Timely followup remains an issue with abnormal lab results in electronic health records
• Tough questions get answers through health IT
• Transitioning to new electronic health records can result in potential safety problems
• Trigger tools have potential to detect adverse events following outpatient surgery
• Turning the Tide: Providers and Patients Win When Health IT Reflects Workflow
• Use of certain electronic health record features is associated with improved primary care quality measures
• Use of electronic prescribing has expanded among Massachusetts physicians
• Using bar-code technology with eMAR reduces medication administration and transcription errors
• Various factors influence the adoption of ergonomics in health care organizations
• Web-based programs help patients with diabetes feel empowered to take care of themselves