AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program
AHRQ's digital healthcare initiative is part of the Nation's strategy to put information technology to work in healthcare. By making health information available electronically when and where it is needed, digital healthcare can improve the quality of care, even as it makes healthcare more cost-effective.
Mission
AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program's mission is to produce and disseminate evidence about how the evolving digital healthcare ecosystem can best advance the quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare for patients and their families.
Go to https://digital.ahrq.gov.
Relevance
The Digital Healthcare Research Program at AHRQ provides foundational research to ensure that digital healthcare systems are designed and implemented in ways that improve quality and safety, while not resulting in excessive burden on physicians and other members of the care team. Current research areas include usability, consumer-focused digital healthcare, clinical decision support, safety, patient-reported outcomes, and care transitions.
Audience
The Program provides research results, lessons learned, and other resources that help clinicians, patients, and hospitals as well as some implementers, vendors, and policymakers stay abreast of what digital health strategies are working in digital healthcare settings around the Nation.
Settings of Care
Digital Healthcare Research-funded projects focus on a range of settings including, but not limited to, patients' homes, and ambulatory, inpatient, and long-term care settings. To fulfill its mission, the Program has invested in research grants and contracts awarded to over 289 distinct institutions in 48 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Participating Agencies and Institutions
AHRQ and its community of contractors and grantees have developed tools, resources, and reports describing research findings, best practices, and lessons learned to help healthcare organizations plan for, implement, and evaluate health IT. These tools describe and recommend strategies for addressing some of the common challenges organizations encounter when working with digital healthcare systems. These materials are made available primarily through the Digital Healthcare Research Program website.
Upcoming Webinar: Advancing Digital Healthcare Equity: Navigating Disparities in the Digital Age
Event Date
December 03, 2024 between 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
To Register
Go to this link: https://ahrqwebinar.webex.com/weblink/register/r8fb19181f98090c40f897fc9ea98f043
Click "Register." Enter your information on the registration form and click "Submit."
You will receive a confirmation email message with instructions on how to join the event. To ensure successful participation, please download the Webex app and/or test your system prior to the live event.
For assistance: If you require special accommodations to participate in the Webinar, please contact DigitalHealthcareResearch@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Description of Webinar
Digital technologies hold the potential to enhance outcomes and reduce disparities, however, they can also unintentionally perpetuate or even worsen existing disparities as a result of poor planning, development, deployment, and/or maintenance of such tools and technologies. Join AHRQ's National Webinar featuring an expert panel of speakers who will highlight recent federal efforts to advance health and digital healthcare equity. The discussion will explore some of the latest frameworks, data, and tools to inform and advance health and digital healthcare equity. CE/CME accreditation of this activity is pending; if approved, eligible providers can earn up to 1.5 CE/CME contact hours for participating in the live webinar.
