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Translatable Findings From Midsized AHRQ Health IT Grants. Moderator: Rebecca Roper Session 90 September 10, 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Long-term and system-wide improvement of health care quality Only federal agency with a focus on health services research
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Translatable Findings From Midsized AHRQ Health IT Grants Moderator: Rebecca Roper Session 90 September 10, 2012
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality • Long-term and system-wide improvement of health care quality • Only federal agency with a focus on health services research • With an expanding focus on implementation and system change • Not a policy-making or regulatory agency
Health IT R-21Due date extended to: 11/17/2013 • PAR-08-269 Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21) (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-269.html). • Short-term preparatory, pilot, or feasibility studies • Exploratory and developmental in nature • More comprehensive and broader in scope than the smaller R-03 projects • Very popular FOA • Since 2009—about three dozen awards • Diversified topics—see Health IT Annual Report at http://healthit.ahrq.gov/HITAnnualReports
R-03 also has extended due date to: 11/17/2013 • PAR-08-268 Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R03) (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-268.html).