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This section includes tools and resources that AHRQ developed, in collaboration with experts in primary care, to advance primary care research and improve the quality and safety of primary care. These tools and resources help researchers and evaluators to design and evaluate primary care research, decision makers to implement practices for primary care transformation, and clinicians to enhance the delivery of primary care by improving care teams, care processes, and achieving best practices.
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1 to 11 of 11 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis report documents how workflow changed in six primary and specialty care medical offices after they implemented health IT systems.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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This report highlights opportunities to improve the impact of health IT on care coordination activities in primary care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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This report documents workflow impacts of applications that allow patients to share information with primary care providers electronically.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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This Quick-Start Guide describes the dissemination, planning, and implementation process for practice-based research networks.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This toolset provides ambulatory care practices resources to implement e-prescribing successfully.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Toolkit
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This brief discusses the ways in which HITECH and broader health reform legislation could ensure electronic health records are implemented in a way that supports primary care transformation.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: White Paper
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This Health IT Literacy Guide and checklist provide a structure, strategies, and other resources for the development of health IT technologies. Similarly, purchasers of health IT (e.g., heath plans, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and other non-profit organizations) that desire to make technologies available to limited-literacy adults, can use this guide and checklist to evaluate a health IT product.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This guide and checklist are intended for developers and purchasers of health information (IT) that is designed to be accessed and used by consumers including those with limited health literacy. The guide and checklist provide a structure, strategies, and other resources for the development of these technologies.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This research examines the integration of health information technology (IT) into primary care. It includes a variety of electronic methods that are used to manage information about people's health and health care, for both individual patients and groups of patients. The use of health IT can improve the quality of care, even as it makes health care more cost effective.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
This toolkit helps examine the impact of health information technology (health IT) on both clinical and administrative workflow. Once implemented, health IT can provide information to help reorganize and improve workflow. This toolkit is designed for people and organizations interested or involved in the planning, design, implementation, and use of health IT in ambulatory care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Toolkit
Publication Date: Ongoing
The AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Program has funded the development of tools to assist in planning for, implementing, and evaluating digital healthcare resources.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
