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healthit.ahrq.gov - AHRQ-Funded Projects | Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program

AHRQ's Ambulatory Safety and Quality (ASQ) program supports the generation of practical information on how to use health information technology (IT) to improve the safety and quality of care in an ambulatory setting or transitions in care. The program consists of four ASQ initiatives. At the conclusion of each ASQ grant initiative, AHRQ developed a high-level summary report of grantee findings as well as informative stories and videos that highlight some of these exemplary Health IT Portfolio-funded projects.

Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program

AHRQ's Ambulatory Safety and Quality (ASQ) program supports the generation of practical information on how to use health information technology (IT) to improve the safety and quality of care in an ambulatory setting or transitions in care. The program consists of four ASQ initiatives. At the conclusion of each ASQ grant initiative, AHRQ developed a high-level summary report of grantee findings as well as informative stories and videos that highlight some of these exemplary Health IT Portfolio-funded projects.

Enabling Quality Measurement Through Health IT [View the full report (PDF, 2.19 MB) ]  PDF Help. 
Available now are a summary report, exemplary stories in both written and video format, and a web conference highlight key findings and lessons learned from the experiences of 17 organizations that received grant funding from AHRQ's Enabling Quality Measurement (EQM) initiative.

Developing and Testing Quality Measures for Interoperable Electronic Health Records (PDF, 570 KB)  PDF Help.
Principal Investigator: Rainu Kaushal
The story features the four-part process that began in 2007 by Dr. Rainu Kaushal and her team (Grant No. R18 HS 017067) to generate and test the reliability of prioritized quality measures from the ambulatory setting. Fifteen of these measures were subsequently included in Meaningful Use 1. 

Using Electronic Health Records to Measure and Improve Quality for Colonoscopy Procedures (PDF, 553 KB)  PDF Help.
Principal Investigator: Judith Logan


A National Web Conference on the Use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Improve Quality Measurement
This AHRQ National Web Conference featured two EQM grantees, Drs. Brian Hazlehurst and Alexander Turchin, and was held on April 11, 2012. To access materials from the web conference, go to: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/nlp-eqmwebinar.