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...
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 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)...
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...
This $238,884 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to assess the efficacy of digital health technologies in low-resource settings. Specifically, the research will examine how digital health technologies create new treatment experiences, affect communication strategies and patient-provider relationships, and are perceived as effective by providers and patients. The project utilizes...
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 $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...
This $385,877 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 optimize the integration of child psychosocial screenings in primary care. The grant will fund the development and testing of the CareLoop intervention, which uses process service mapping to enhance referral and linkage pathways and promote whole-person,...
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 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the National Research Service Awards Health Services Research Training program (CFDA 93.225) aims to design, implement, and evaluate a novel emergency department-based intervention to refer people experiencing homelessness to a physician-led street medicine program at the time of discharge. The $186,728 award, with a project period from March 2025 to...
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, efficiency, and optimized workflows in asynchronous care processes; 2) Investigate the relationships between work burden, system resiliency, inefficiency, and burnout and their impact on care quality and safety; and 3) Estimate the relative impacts and generalizability of various interventions to address these challenges. The project will integrate analytical process simulation, system dynamics modeling, and system resiliency analysis methods to develop insights and evaluate potential solutions. The research will be conducted in partnership with 4 varied community health centers and validated through broader collaboration with statewide primary care organizations. The expected outcomes include more efficient and resilient processes, reduced burden and burnout, and improved patient care, with potential to benefit over 130 million patients nationwide if scaled.