RECOVERY OS CER: IHS - Comparative Effectiveness of QI Efforts Among American Indian and Alaska Native Communities

RECOVERY: THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY UNDER THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT.



The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) intends to issue a competitive task order against an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Task Order with the National Resource Center Domain 2 master contract holders. It is anticipated that AHRQ will award 1 task order. The purpose of this task order is to support the development of data infrastructure that will accelerate comparative effectiveness research on the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population and to support efforts to prioritize prevention, treatment and chronic disease management interventions for this population through comparative effectiveness research. The goal of this task order is to use electronic clinical data from the Indian Health Service (IHS) national health information system (RPMS - Resource and Patient Management System) to enhance the capacity to electronically measure quality of care consistent with national HIT standards and conduct comparative effectiveness research that will identify care delivery models within the Indian/Tribal and Urban systems that result in improved health outcomes.



This opportunity is available to 12 contractors under the NRC D2 multiple award contract which was previously competed and awarded in 2009.



To obtain further information regarding the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT please visit the following website: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/About-NRC.



For NRC Domain 2 Contractors and point of contact information please see the following website: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/NRC-D2-POCs.