This federal Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will support a $142,864 project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The goal is to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and used by clinical decision...
The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) received a $3,689,064 Project Grant award on September 30, 2024 from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Research Centers (CFDA 93.155) federal grant program. This program supports policy-relevant research and technical assistance to address healthcare challenges in rural communities. Through this award, KUMCRI will conduct research and...
The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded Brown University $119,735.58 under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes federal grant program (CFDA 93.226) from April 1, 2021 to January 14, 2022. The Project Grant funding supports the development of statistical methods and application of machine learning techniques to reinterpret results from multisite clinical trials in the context of individual participating sites and new...
The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) was awarded a $5,683,410.00 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Head Start federal grant program (CFDA 93.600). The award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030, will support the organization's delivery of comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutritional, and social services to low-income pregnant women, infants, toddlers,...
This Project Grant award, valued at $999,998.00 and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, aims to evaluate the implementation of antibiotic stewardship (AS) strategies and equity standards in urgent care clinics and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in the Chicagoland area. The study will assess disparities in antibiotic prescribing and the factors driving these inequities,...
This federal Project Grant award for $400,000 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program focuses on evaluating a "whole person navigation" intervention to improve care for adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). The project aims to: Develop a predictive model to identify patients with MCC at highest risk of not meeting evidence-based clinical care goals; Define requirements and...
This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $275,000 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston over a 2-year period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The funded project aims to develop and test strategies to increase implementation of evidence-based interventions by patient advocacy groups in three areas: juvenile idiopathic arthritis, multiple...
This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) federal grant program will evaluate the impact of three EHR-optimization interventions on primary care physician (PCP) experience and patient quality of care. The $1,199,999 award to Brigham & Women's Hospital will test how the use of scribes, advanced team-based inbox messaging support, and AI-assisted inbox support affects PCP EHR...
The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) was awarded a $766,886.00 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) on Sep 30, 2023. The 2-year grant supports research on the importance of NKG2D signaling-induced IL-24 secretion by tumor-specific CD8+ T cells. Through this biomedical research project, KUMCRI aims to investigate medical solutions that could transform health care for Service...
This federal Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $786,954 to the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) to understand the screening and treatment-seeking patterns of marginalized rape survivors. The goal is to observe how screening programs and treatment-seeking behaviors evolve over time in this population. UMKC has subcontracted $191,005 to the University...