The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The push is on for healthcare providers to make the switch to EHRs but it is hard to tell how well these complex health IT systems are being implemented and used, according to a Feb. 3 commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded health information management nonprofit, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation, a $48,000 research development conference grant to lead a two-day summit, based on a project to improve health services research agenda to leverage health IT in rural America.
Non-surgical methods can be just as effective in the diagnosis of breast cancer as the option of surgical biopsy, which carries greater risk of harm to the patient, said a new report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Effective Healthcare program.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has released its Quality Data Set report, which addresses the gap between EHR systems and the lack of quality measure specifications in clinical use EHRs.
An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) literature review suggests that consumer health informatics engage consumers, enhance traditional clinical interventions and improve intermediate and clinical health outcomes.
The combinations of BI-RADS lesion descriptors can predict the probability of malignancy for breast MRI masses, but not for non-masslike enhancement, according to a study in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Abnormal results on outpatient imaging tests sometimes may not receive timely follow-up even when clinicians receive and read results in an advanced, integrated EMR system, according to a study in the Sept. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be handing out individual grants for up to $3 million to states and health systems to implement and evaluate models and methods to improve patient safety and reduce medical liability.
Healthcare consumers believe they should have a say about the development of health IT systems in order to protect the security and privacy of their own medical information, according to a report prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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States are using the “deeply flawed and widely discredited” U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) mammography recommendations to deny women coverage for mammograms, and many women are forgoing mammography care based on those recommendations, according to a survey conducted by the Avon Foundation for Women.
It is not appropriate to make a broad recommendation for a public disclosure process for adverse events in hospitals, according to a recent memorandum from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is now accepting applications to give $44 million in grants to fund research projects to advance the quality, depth and scale of electronic data collection as a basis for comparative effectiveness research.
In a reversal of its 2002 recommendations, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued new guidelines against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years, against teaching women breast self-examination and advocating biennial screening mammography only for women aged 50 to 74 years.
An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report, examining the cost of end-of-life care and hospitalization for individuals and payors within and outside of the Medicare system in 2007, found that the average cost of 765,651 hospital patient stays ending in death totaled $26,035 per patient.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released its Health IT Portfolio, revealing that the agency funded 124 grants and 26 contracts in 2008—the vast majority of which were multi-year in duration. In total, AHRQ will provide nearly one-quarter of a billion dollars in support over the lifetime of the projects, equaling $151 million for the grants and $70 million for the contracts.
Patients reporting new lower-back pain are more likely to undergo surgery if treated in an area with a higher-than-average concentration of MRI machines, according to a study published online Wednesday in Health Affairs.
Deborah Peel, MD, founder of the Coalition for Patient Privacy, asked the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee to “set a really high bar for privacy" during a hearing last Friday.
An analysis of data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that seniors in Medicare Advantage spend fewer days in the hospital and are less likely to be readmitted or unnecessarily admitted.
Particle-beam radiation therapy is considered by some clinicians to be better than traditional radiation therapy, but there is limited evidence about its safety compared with other types of radiation therapy, according to a literature review published Sept. 14 online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.