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AHRQ Handbook Helps Physician Practices Implement Interactive Preventive Health Records

A new AHRQ handbook offers practical guidance to physician practices on the implementation of interactive preventive health records (IPHRs). The handbook is based on the lessons learned from implementation using electronic health records (EHRs) from three different vendors at 14 different physician practices. An Interactive Preventive Care Record: A Handbook for Using Patient-Centered Personal Health Records to Promote Prevention provides practical steps when integrating IPHRs as components of EHRs. A recent article published in the Annals of Family Medicine found that IPHR users were more likely to be up-to-date on all preventive services than non-users, especially for screening tests and immunizations. The study findings showed that an IPHR and similar systems can improve important patient outcomes, such as the delivery of evidence-based preventive care. The IPHR was developed and studied in three AHRQ-funded projects to better understand how to broadly implement and disseminate patient-centered information systems throughout primary care.  The projects show the development and effect of the IPHR tool on patient outcomes, the ability for it to be successfully adopted into multiple and varied EHRs and health care settings, and how it can be integrated into the primary care workflow for an entire practice’s patient population. Select to access the handbook and for more information on AHRQ’s IPHR projects.►

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Success Stories from the AHRQ-Funded Health IT Portfolio
AHRQ developed project success stories to highlight exemplary Health IT Portfolio-funded projects that demonstrate positive impact on health care outcomes. These projects are well-poised to demonstrate sustainability or transferability of health IT, or expansion through the translation of health IT research into practice. The stories also aim to highlight new or novel projects that address gaps in the research literature and collectively show a wide range of successful projects supported by the Health IT Portfolio.

	Individualized, Multi-Media Materials in Spanish and English Help Seniors Manage Medications and Communicate with Clinician Team (PDF, 600 KB)  PDF Help. Principal Investigator: Kate L. Lapane (Grant No. R18 HS 017281) The development of DVD segments on topics such as insomnia, depression, heart failure, and diabetes show promise as a way to help older adults address medication health care challenges. For more information detailing this project, please view this video (Flash, 10 min., 28 sec.).
	Patients Take a Bite of Prevention Apple with Web-based Interactive Personal Health Records (PDF, 5.58 MB)  PDF Help. Principal Investigator: Alexander Krist (Grant No. R18 HS 017046) Interactive Preventive Health Record improves patient outcomes in the delivery of preventive services. A Handbook for Using Patient-Centered Interactive Personal Health Records To Promote Prevention (PDF, 576 KB) PDF Help. This handbook offers practical guidance on the implementation of interactive preventive health records (IPHRs).
	Toolkit Available for Assessing the Impact of Health IT on Workflow in Provider Offices (PDF, 1.03 MB)  PDF Help. Principal Investigators: Pascale Carayon and Ben-Tzion Karsh (Contract No. 290-08-10036) This toolkit helps provider offices assess their workflows before, during, and after the implementation of a health IT system.
	Time, Effort, and Infrastructure Costs to Use Electronic Health Records (PDF, 274 KB)  PDF Help. Principal Investigator: Neil Fleming (Grant No. R03 HS 018220) This study estimated the actual costs of electronic health record implementation including the resources associated with the time and effort of planning, customization, and training and showed that the loss of revenue and productivity are not as burdensome as feared. For more information, please view the presentation Dr. Fleming gave at the 2011 AHRQ Annual Conference. (PDF, 177 KB)  PDF Help.

Success Stories from the AHRQ-Funded Health IT Portfolio (2009)
The purpose of this report, Success Stories from the AHRQ-Funded Health IT Portfolio (2009) is to provide illustrative examples of the various types of the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio-funded projects. To view the success stories from 2009, please view the report  (PDF, 588 KB) PDF Help.
Last Modified: July 2012