New AHRQ Views Blog Posts

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 in a new blog post that two seminal events, both occurring 20 years ago, helped set the nation’s healthcare agenda and define the quality improvement and patient safety 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.