Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program: Improving Quality through Clinician Use of Health IT (R18)

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Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program: Improving Quality through Clinician Use of Health IT (R18): The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the availability of funds to support the development of health information technology (health IT) that assists clinicians, practices and systems in improving the quality and safety of care delivery and medication management in ambulatory care settings. The long-term goal of this effort is to insure that patients receive the appropriate care and management for the prevention and treatment of priority conditions. Health IT has the potential to deliver evidence-based information to the point-of-care; expand the range and ease of potential electronic health record (EHR)-based quality measures; enable new models of care delivery; facilitate high-quality transitions in care settings; and improve the value and quality of health care. A portion of these funds will be set aside to focus on medication management. Medication therapy is a significant source of medical errors, cost, and missed opportunities for health care coordination, and health IT can be a potent intervention to address these issues. While health IT has demonstrated improvement in health care safety and quality in several large health care delivery systems, there has been limited diffusion of EHR systems capable of providing effective medication management and decision support into the ambulatory setting, where the majority of health care occurs.