09/21/11

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The AHRQ Health IT Portfolio's 2010 Annual ReportIs Now Available


The AHRQ Health IT Portfolio's 2010 Annual ReportIs Now Available

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Health Information Technology Portfolio has released its 2010 Annual Report. This Annual Report is designed to disseminate information on the research areas and progress at both the portfolio and project levels. The Portfolio is summarized by a number of broad categories of projects, including: Health IT Portfolio strategic goals, AHRQ business goals, funding mechanisms, geographic distribution, and lifetime funding as of 2010. The report also describes activities that took place throughout the year and synthesizes challenges, outputs, and successes of the 180 active projects. In addition, as part of the report, an individual project summary for each of the 121 grants and 59 contracts projects provides an overview of the project’s long term objectives, status updates of the specific aims and objectives, and updates on completed or ongoing project activities. The report also highlights the dissemination activities of the projects and the AHRQ Health IT team.  To access the abridged report online, please go to the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio's 2010 Annual Report: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/ahrq-funded_projects/654/health_it_portfolio_annual_report/16758. After reaching that website, the abridged report appears as a PDF file.

 

If you wish to access the abridged report in PDF format, you can do so, directly through this link: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/HIT2010Reportabridged.

 

For help opening the document, please review this PDF Help Guide: http://www.ahrq.gov/pdfhelp.htm.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Update


Register Now for Webinar on Obstetrical Adverse Events on September 28

HHS’ Partnership for Patients has teamed up with the National Quality Forum to launch a series of free patient safety Webinars. The next webinar will be held on September 28 and focuses on obstetrical adverse events. Featured speakers include Maureen Corry, Executive Director, Childbirth Connections and Kathleen Simpson, Ph.D., Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. The session will discuss the Partnership for Patients goal for hospitals to reduce 30 percent of preventable obstetrical adverse effects.  Select to register for the September 28, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m., EDT, Webinar.