After 20 Years of Improving America’s Healthcare, AHRQ Makes Bold Plans for Future Successes | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

After 20 Years of Improving America’s Healthcare, AHRQ Makes Bold Plans for Future Successes | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

After 20 Years of Improving America’s Healthcare, AHRQ Makes Bold Plans for Future Successes As AHRQ pursues exciting plans for future initiatives, Director Gopal Khanna, M.B.A., notes that two seminal events, both occurring 20 years ago, helped set the nation’s healthcare agenda and define the quality improvement mission that drives AHRQ’s work today. Publication in 1999 of the then-Institute of Medicine’s To Err is Human, followed by legislation establishing AHRQ as the nation’s lead healthcare improvement agency, not only guided the agency through two decades of successes but helped AHRQ identify new areas of impact. AHRQ’s emerging plans are aimed at improving care for people with multiple chronic conditions, providing data and analytics to support informed policymaking, and reducing diagnostic errors.

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