Using Health Information Technology to Improve Pediatric Vaccination Rates | Agency for Health Research and Quality

Using Health Information Technology to Improve Pediatric Vaccination Rates | Agency for Health Research and Quality

AHRQ Grantee Improves Immunization Rates Among Hispanic Patients

Through AHRQ’s practice-based research grants, Melissa Stockwell, M.D., M.P.H., used health information technology and mobile technology to devise “FluAlerts” and other solutions to improve the immunization status of underrepresented pediatric patients. Dr. Stockwell is the chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Health at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Access Dr. Stockwell's profile for details, as well as profiles of other AHRQ grantees.