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 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 from the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) will fund a mixed-methods study to evaluate equity in antibiotic stewardship strategies and disparities in antibiotic prescribing appropriateness. The total award amount is $999,998 and the project will run from September 30, 2024 to July 31, 2029. The study will use surveys, electronic...
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,...
The federal Project Grant award R01LM014600, funded by the National Institutes of Health under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program, is aimed at developing novel natural language processing (NLP) technologies to mitigate risks and improve the reliability of large language models (LLMs) for the task of medical text simplification. The $727,580.00 award, with a project period from Sep 18, 2024 to Aug 31, 2028, will support the following key products and services: Design of the...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program, aims to develop and validate a novel informatics framework to extract computable population, intervention, comparison, and outcome (PICO) elements and summarize them from publications of interventional and observational studies. The total funding amount is $391,388.00, with an award date of September 18, 2024 and an ultimate...
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 $400,000 Project Grant award was provided 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 supports a nationwide retrospective analysis examining the impact of 2014 Medicare policy changes that shifted medication payment responsibility from Medicare Part D to hospice providers. The research aims to evaluate changes in Part D drug expenditures, utilization patterns, prescribing...
This federal Project Grant award of $800,000.00 was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program. The objective is to evaluate the impact of the "Bedside Notes" health IT intervention, which provides parents of hospitalized children with real-time access to their child's clinical notes through an inpatient portal on a bedside tablet. The key products/services to be delivered include:...
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 of $400,000 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will support research to assess the consistency of methods, results, and conclusions about patient safety in systematic reviews (SRs) of drugs. The project will leverage natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and synthesize evidence on harms from SRs, real-world evidence (RWE) studies, and drug labels, with the goal of identifying inconsistencies and potential issues with how harms are assessed and reported in SRs. This information will be used to develop improved guidance for synthesizing and reporting harms in SRs, with the aim of ultimately improving conclusions about patient safety in SRs and clinical guidelines. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the primary awardee, and the University of Illinois will serve as a sub-awardee to provide technical expertise in NLP and annotation of scientific literature.