The tools listed below are projects from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer (KT)/Implementation program, which disseminates products, tools, and research to specific target groups and helps implement them
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Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)
Emergency Preparedness Tools for States
Pharmacy Suite of Tools
Purchasers' Suite of Tools
Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)
Description:
This program works with providers to test integration of AHRQ's Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) in electronic formats, such as reminder systems and electronic medical records. The participating providers represent Federal, private, and other systems that use electronic systems in delivery of care. The ePSS is an interactive tool, initially designed for use on a personal digital assistant (PDA) or desktop computer, to help primary care clinicians incorporate the screening, counseling, and preventive services recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that are appropriate for their patients.
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Emergency Preparedness Tools for States
Description:
The Emergency Preparedness Tools for States provide assistance to community planners in three pilot sites to use one or more of AHRQ's products (http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/) to enhance their overall emergency preparedness planning process, operational effectiveness, and response to public health emergencies. The emphasis will be on fostering partnerships and integration among public health departments, hospitals, and health care providers as well as emergency management at the State, regional, and local levels.
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Pharmacy Suite of Tools
Description:
The Pharmacy Suite of Tools develops partnerships with key organizations and associations to disseminate and promote select products and tools developed from AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program. Target audiences include pharmacy stakeholders. The project will provide opportunities for pharmacy groups to offer feedback and nominate topics for future EHC summaries and reports, develop marketing plans for each partner, and measure results of efforts.
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Purchasers' Suite of Tools
Description:
The Purchasers' Suite of Tools promotes the use of selected AHRQ products to purchasers of health care in the private sector and document the impact of using the products. Other goals are to establish relationships with organizations representing or serving employers, determine the organization's knowledge of AHRQ and its products, and increase uptake of selected AHRQ products by private-sector employers.
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Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
Description:
The Quality
Diagnostic Tools for States works to increase the use of the Quality Improvement tools. Activities include workshops, audio and Web conferences, and hands-on technical assistance with individual States to encourage and facilitate use of the tools.
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Current as of August 2009
Internet Citation:
AHRQ's Knowledge Transfer/Implementation Program: Tools for States and Organizations . August 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/kt/kttools.htm
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