Project Grant R43AG058357

The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of machine learning-driven user interfaces and contextual displays to help clinicians synthesize information from patient medical records. Researchers will create a novel...

This federal Project Grant award of $800,000.00 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will fund a study to assess the impact of Electronic Health Record (EHR) optimization interventions on Primary Care Physician (PCP) work experience and patient care quality. The study will evaluate three interventions - scribes, advanced team-based inbox messaging support, and AI-assisted inbox messaging...

This $800,000 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 will fund a multicenter randomized controlled trial to evaluate the "Bedside Notes" intervention. The Bedside Notes intervention aims to improve access to electronic clinical notes for parents of hospitalized children in order to enhance patient safety and care...

This federal Project Grant award under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), provides $666,827.00 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 use a mixed-methods approach to assess how these EHR...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $785,951 to New York University (NYU) School of Medicine to conduct research on improving provider adoption of clinical decision support tools for pulmonary embolism risk assessment. The project aims to evaluate the impact of incorporating behavioral economic "nudge" strategies into a clinical decision support tool for managing pulmonary embolism...

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 (CFDA 93.226) program will fund a multi-year study to examine the relationship between diagnostic encounter time, clinician stress, and diagnostic outcomes. The $500,000 award to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., a subsidiary of Partners Healthcare System Incorporated, will support the following key activities:...

This $351,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program supports research to develop a trustworthy and high-performance question answering system for electronic health records (EHRs). The key objectives are to: Leverage the strengths of large language models (LLMs) while maintaining the trustworthiness of carefully-designed systems like the QUEHRY system, to create a hybrid EHR question...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to The Ohio State University totals $849,993 and aims to improve hospital care for older adults. The project, titled "Leveraging the EHR to Promote Age-Friendly Care in Hospitals (LEAF)", will develop an EHR-based "4Ms Navigator" to integrate geriatric assessments and information into a standardized tool for clinical use. This will facilitate communication and prevent information loss...

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 (CFDA 93.226) program totals $399,999 and will be conducted by Northeastern University from September 30, 2024 to July 31, 2029. The grant aims to leverage systems engineering approaches to better understand and address issues of work burden, system resiliency, and burnout among community health center staff. Key...

This $400,000 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 supports a research project to assess the consistency of methods, results, and conclusions about patient safety in systematic reviews (SRs) of drugs. The project aims to leverage advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and synthesize evidence on harms from SRs, real-world evidence (RWE) studies,...