This federal Project Grant award of $500,000.00 was made on September 30, 2024 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program. The grant was awarded to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., a subsidiary of the larger Partners Healthcare System Incorporated, to conduct research on the relationships between diagnosis quality, clinician time and stress. The key objectives of the 4-year project are to: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award for $399,999 from the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will support a multidisciplinary research project at Northeastern University focused on understanding and addressing community health center burden, resiliency, and burnout. The research aims to: 1) Understand the nature, extent, and issues with system resiliency,...
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...
This $100,000 project grant was awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) federal grant program. The grant will support research by the American Board of Family Medicine Inc. (ABFM) to analyze primary care providers' responses to four key clinical guideline updates covering areas such as hepatitis C screening, pneumococcal vaccination, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, and colorectal cancer screening....
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program supports research to improve understanding of delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in ambulatory care settings. The project aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data and stakeholder expertise to identify risk factors, disparities, and outcomes associated with delayed and missed VTE diagnosis in...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program provides $666,827 to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to evaluate the impact of electronic health record (EHR) documentation assistant modalities, including speech recognition, medical scribes, virtual scribes, and digital scribes, on provider workflow and system-level outcomes. The project aims to expand on OHSU's prior...
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $399,111 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The grant aims to increase postpartum primary care engagement, quality, and experience by strengthening coordination between obstetric and primary care providers. The intervention includes default primary care visit scheduling,...
This $1,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to study institutional approaches to preventing and mitigating the impact of sexual harassment on physician well-being. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Identifying high-, average-, and low-performing institutions for sexual harassment...
The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) was awarded a $145,139 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The award, with a project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029, aims to develop community-informed quality indicators and implementation strategies to improve health equity in primary care settings. Key activities include: 1) identifying...
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 will provide $275,000 in funding to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The project aims to develop and test strategies to increase implementation of evidence-based interventions through collaboration with patient advocacy groups in the areas of juvenile idiopathic...
This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, will evaluate the impact of three EHR-optimization interventions on primary care physician (PCP) time, wellbeing, and quality of care. The $1,199,999 award, effective August 1, 2024 through May 31, 2029, will assess the use of scribes, advanced team-based inbox messaging support, and AI-assisted inbox messaging support, either individually or in combination, across 800 PCPs caring for 1 million patients at 210 practice sites. The study will generate evidence on how these interventions impact PCP EHR time, physician wellbeing, and quality and utilization of patient care. Three sub-awards to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Yale University, and the University of California, San Francisco will support site-specific study design, data collection, and analysis to provide healthcare leaders with actionable insights on optimizing PCPs' EHR interactions while maintaining high-quality primary care.