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Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
(AHRQ) April 14, 2015
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD/Chief, Health IT Research/AHRQ
DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily represent official policy or position of HIMSS.
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Conflict of Interest
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD
Has no real or apparent conflicts of interest to report.
© HIMSS 2015
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Learning Objectives
• Describe AHRQ funded project and initiatives relevant to conference topics
• Synthesize findings from these projects
• Identify emerging health IT research opportunities
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Today’s Agenda
• About AHRQ
• About Health IT at AHRQ
• AHRQ’s Role in Health IT and Approaches Used
• Selected Projects
• Knowledge Gained and Funding Priorities
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Today’s Agenda
• About AHRQ
• About Health IT at AHRQ
• AHRQ’s Role in Health IT and Approaches Used
• Selected Projects
• Knowledge Gained and Funding Priorities
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HHS Organizational Focus
Biomedical research
to prevent, diagnose,
and treat disease
Population health and
the role of
community-based
interventions to
improve health
Long-term and system-
wide improvement of
health care quality and
effectiveness
CDC NIH AHRQ
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AHRQ’s Mission
To produce evidence to make health care
safer, higher quality, more accessible,
equitable, and affordable, and work within the
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and with other partners to make sure
that the evidence is understood and used.
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Today’s Agenda
• About AHRQ
• About Health IT at AHRQ
• AHRQ’s Role in Health IT and Approaches Used
• Selected Projects
• Knowledge Gained and Funding Priorities
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Health IT at HHS
ONC
Coordinating Health
IT Policy and
Programs
AHRQ CMS
Setting Rules for
Payment
Building Evidence
of Health IT Impact
on Health Care
Quality and Safety
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AHRQ Health IT Funding
• Projects awarded to over 178 distinct institutions in 46 States and the District of Columbia
• FY15 Budget: $28M
AHRQ Health IT
Investment:
$450 million
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Today’s Agenda
• About AHRQ
• About Health IT at AHRQ
• AHRQ’s Role in Health IT and Approaches
Used
• Selected Projects
• Knowledge Gained and Funding Priorities
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AHRQ’s Role in Health IT
• Demonstrate effectiveness of new health IT solutions
• Evaluate impact of health IT on quality and safety
• Work to ensure evidence is understood and used
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Approaches to Reach Goals
•Research grants and contracts
•Partnering with other Federal agencies
•Sharing findings and lessons learned
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Approaches to Reach Goals
•Research grants and contracts
•Partnering with other Federal agencies
•Sharing findings and lessons learned
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Approaches to Reach Goals
• Research grants – Requests for applications
– Program announcements
– Small (R03, R21) and larger (R01, R18) grant projects
• Research contracts – Demonstration projects
– Rapid cycle, field-based research
– Systematic reviews of the literature
– Workshops/research agenda setting
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Approaches to Reach Goals
•Research grants and contracts
•Partnering with other Federal agencies
•Sharing findings and lessons learned
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A Robust Health Data Infrastructure
• Discusses technical challenges in the U.S. health IT system
• Proposes a future state for a health IT architecture
• Includes recommendations to develop national vision for an effective and efficient interoperable health IT “ecosystem”
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/RobustHealthDataInfrastructureReport
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Approaches to Reach Goals
•Research grants and contracts
•Partnering with other Federal agencies
•Sharing findings and lessons learned
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For more information: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/events
National Health IT Teleconferences
• Six to eight teleconferences per year
• Various topics related to health IT and quality
• 100–500 participants/ teleconference
Upcoming:
Web Conference on
Assessing Patient Health
Information Needs
Thursday, May 7, 2015
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. ET
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Children’s EHR Format
www.healthit.ahrq.gov/childehrformat
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Today’s Agenda
• About AHRQ
• About Health IT at AHRQ
• AHRQ’s Role in Health IT and Approaches Used
• Selected Projects
• Knowledge Gained and Funding Priorities
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Selected Projects
HIMSS 2015 Topics
Improving Outcomes
• Quality and Safety
Specific Health IT Applications or
Systems
• Consumer Health IT
• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Health IT Design, Implementation,
and Use Issues
• Human Factors, Usability & Design
• IT Standards and Interoperability
• Process Improvement, Workflow,
Change Management/Clinician
Engagement
• Meaningful Use
Quality Improvement Activities
• Patient Engagement
• Quality Measurement
• Transitions of Care: Coordination
and Management
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Sample Projects HIMSS 2015 Topics
Improving Outcomes
• Quality and Safety
Specific Health IT Applications or
Systems
• Consumer Health IT
• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Health IT Design, Implementation,
and Use Issues
• Human Factors, Usability & Design
• IT Standards and Interoperability
• Process Improvement, Workflow,
Change Management/Clinician
Engagement
• Meaningful Use
Quality Improvement Activities
• Patient Engagement
• Quality Measurement
• Transitions of Care: Coordination
and Management
Selected Projects
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Computerized Provider Order Entry Reduces Medication Errors in Hospitals
• Estimates effect of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems on medication errors
• Processing a prescription order through a CPOE system decreases the likelihood of error by 48 percent
• Approximately 17.4 million medication errors may be averted in one year in the United States by using CPOE, a 12.5 percent reduction
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/early/2013/01/27/amiajnl-2012-001241.full
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E-Prescribing Systems Linked to Formulary Data Reduces Costs
• Doctors using e-prescribing with formulary decision support increased their use of generic prescriptions by 3.3 percent
• E-prescribing with formulary can save $845,000 per 100,000 patients per year
Available at:
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/
article.aspx?articleid=773454
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Tele-Consultation To Improve Access to Care in Rural Areas
• Developed capacity to treat chronic, common, complex diseases in rural, underserved areas
• Links community-based medical teams with university-based specialists
• Proven to be an effective way to treat hepatitis C virus infection in underserved communities
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Evidence Report on Effectiveness of Clinical Decision Support and
Knowledge Management
• CDS improves health care process measures
• Successful implementation features named
• Clinical decision support impact on clinical and economic outcomes remains limited
Available at:
www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-
based-reports/services/health-it/index.html
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Selected Projects
HIMSS 2015 Topics
Improving Outcomes
• Quality and Safety
Specific Health IT Applications or
Systems
• Consumer Health IT
• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Health IT Design, Implementation,
and Use Issues
• Human Factors, Usability & Design
• IT Standards and Interoperability
• Process Improvement, Workflow,
Change Management/Clinician
Engagement
• Meaningful Use
Quality Improvement Activities
• Patient Engagement
• Quality Measurement
• Transitions of Care: Coordination
and Management
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Consumer Health IT
www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13149
Barriers and Drivers of Health IT Use for the
Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK38653/
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State and Regional Demonstrations of Health Information Exchange
• Building community trust
• Technical considerations
• Project planning and management
• Implementation
• Demonstrating Value
• Sustainability
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/stateandregionalhie
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Guide to Evaluating HIE Projects
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/hieevaluationguide
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Early, Foundational Work on CDS
Demonstration Videos
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/CDSCVideo
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/GLIDESVideo
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/CDSDemonstrationsReport
Demonstration Project Synthesis Report
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Selected Projects
HIMSS 2015 Topics
Improving Outcomes
• Quality and Safety
Specific Health IT Applications or
Systems
• Consumer Health IT
• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Health IT Design, Implementation,
and Use Issues
• Human Factors, Usability & Design
• IT Standards and Interoperability
• Process Improvement, Workflow,
Change Management/Clinician
Engagement
• Meaningful Use
Quality Improvement Activities
• Patient Engagement
• Quality Measurement
• Transitions of Care: Coordination
and Management
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Understanding Development Methods from Other Industries to Improve the Design of Consumer Health IT
• Objectives:
– Improve design of consumer health IT products
– Impact level of use
• Data collection methods:
– Environmental scan and grey literature review
– Key informant interviews
• Product: Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers
– Ten recommendations for designers, developers, and vendors of consumer health IT applications
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/developmentmethodsguide
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Consumer Health IT in the Home: Design Considerations
• AHRQ-funded guide published
by National Research Council
– Rapid growth of home health
care has raised many issues
– Guide provides human factors
design considerations in health
IT applications
– Helps designers and developers
understand realities and complex
nature of managing health at
home
www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13205
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Basic Health IT Research
• Need to better understand – Clinical work and how it’s done
• Understanding Clinical Information Needs and Health Care Decision Making Processes in the Context of Health Information Technology (IT) (R01) (PA-11-198) - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-198.html
– How individuals and families manage health information
• Understanding User Needs and Context to Inform Consumer Health Information Technology (IT) Design (R01) (PA-11-199)
– http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-199.html
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Improving the Safety of Health IT: Health IT Hazard Manager
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/HealthITHazardManagerFinalReport
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IT Standards and Interoperability
• Medicare Modernization Act
– E-prescribing (eRx) Pilots
– Administrated by AHRQ & CMS
• Test eRx systems of data standards for how efficiently and effectively eRx information can be transmitted to and from providers and pharmacies
• Initial standards + 3 eRx foundation standards
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/erxpilots
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Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances
• Developed electronic system to create and securely transmit prescriptions for controlled substances
• Participants reported that the system improved workflow and efficiency
For more information:
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/CarrowSuccess
Story.pdf
Project Video:
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/AHRQHealthIT
SuccessStoriesCarrowVideo
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Using Health IT in Workflow Redesign: Impact of Health IT on Workflow
• Request for task order to
– Study implementation of health IT to support practice redesign in ambulatory care settings
– Further understand causal relationships between health IT and workflow processes
• Three task orders with different foci – Health IT-supported diabetes care coordination program
– Different redesign efforts, focus on interruptions and exceptions
– Capture and use of patient reported health information via health IT
• Results expected late spring/early summer and Web conference being planned
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Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/workflow
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Evaluation of Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU) Objectives
• Awarded 12 grants and contracts
– Rapid cycle evaluations of implementation of Stage 3 MU proposed objectives
• Evaluations were to yield
– Proposed strategies for improving the objectives at the policy level
– Proposed EHR innovations that would better enable providers to meet the proposed objectives
– Suggestions for hospitals and/or ambulatory practices on how to increase the value to them of MU objectives
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluation-of-meaningful-use
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Selected Projects
HIMSS 2015 Topics
Improving Outcomes
• Quality and Safety
Specific Health IT Applications or
Systems
• Consumer Health IT
• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Health IT Design, Implementation,
and Use Issues
• Human Factors, Usability & Design
• IT Standards and Interoperability
• Process Improvement, Workflow,
Change Management/Clinician
Engagement
• Meaningful Use
Quality Improvement Activities
• Patient Engagement
• Quality Measurement
• Transitions of Care: Coordination
and Management
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Enabling Patient-Centered Care Through Health IT Grant Initiative
• Developed and tested approaches to delivering patient-centered care in
• Providing access to medical information
• Supporting patient-clinician communication
• Patient self-management
• Shared decisionmaking
• Highlighted barriers and facilitators to the use of health IT to deliver patient-centered care
• Found positive impact on outcomes for health IT applications that support patient-centered care
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/asqpccreport
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My Wellness Portal Enhances Patient-Centered Preventive Care
For more information:
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/MoldSuccess
Story2013.pdf
Project Video:
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/AHRQHealthIT
SuccessStoriesMoldVideo
• Personal health
record (PHR) to
support preventive
service management
• 84 percent of adults
and 95 percent of
children received all
recommended
preventive services
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Enabling Quality Measurement Through Health IT Grant Initiative
• Projects integrated patient safety and quality measurement with health IT
– Measure development across episodes of care
– Clinical data needs for quality measurement export and reporting
– Reporting of quality data for improvement
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/asqeqmreport
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Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement
• Identified:
– strategies,
– a health services infrastructure, and
– research issues
related to health IT- enabled quality measures
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/HealthITEnabledQualityMeasurement
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Electronically-Mediated Care Coordination
• Research grants and contracts
– At different scales
• Focus: – Specifically focused on
care coordination
– Care coordination included
• Topics Explored – Processes of care
– Integrating care and services
– Transitions in care
– Measurement
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Enhancing Complex Care through an Integrated Care Coordination
Information System
• Complex redesign to support coordination of care using health IT
• Health IT provides a means to monitor and enroll high risk patients
• Shown to improve care coordination activities
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Today’s Agenda
• About AHRQ
• About Health IT at AHRQ
• AHRQ’s Role in Health IT and Approaches Used
• Selected Projects
• Knowledge Gained and Funding Priorities
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What we Know so Far
• Studies have shown health IT
– Improves quality of care
– Can improve efficiency and even save time
– Has increased patient, caregiver, and provider satisfaction
– Is associated with improvement in patient safety and improved cost-effectiveness
• Some evidence regarding health IT attributes that can impact use and effectiveness
• Evidence of facilitators best practices in design and implementation
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Gaps
• Findings cannot be generalized to all types of heath IT applications or systems, all care settings, all user groups, or all care processes
• Evidence not as strong for some clinical outcomes
• Issues in systems design and implementation that can impact the use and effectiveness of health IT
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What’s Needed
• Additional user involvement in health IT design and evaluation
• Research in settings/with user groups for which adoption and use lag
• Demonstrated best practices in design and implementation of health IT
• Which effective health IT designs can lead to higher adoption and use, and improved outcomes
• Inclusion of sociotechnical context as part of health IT design and evaluation
• Understand why impact varies across outcomes
• Understand impact on workflow and workload, efficiency, economic, and clinical outcomes
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Moving Forward
• Areas of Interest
– Continuous quality improvement cycle
– Research on:
• Health IT design
• Health IT implementation
• Health IT use
• Impact of health IT on outcomes
• Use of health IT to support quality measurement
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
• Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): Interest in Career Development (K08) and Dissertation (R36) Grants Focused on Health Information Technology (IT)
– NOT-HS-13-011: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-13-011.html
• Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21)
– PA-14-001: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-001.html
www.healthit.arhq.gov/funding
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
• Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): Interest in Career Development (K08) and Dissertation (R36) Grants Focused on Health Information Technology (IT)
– NOT-HS-13-011: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-13-011.html
• Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21)
– PA-14-001: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-001.html
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
• Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): Interest in Career Development (K08) and Dissertation (R36) Grants Focused on Health Information Technology (IT)
– Support next generation of health IT researchers by funding health IT-focused training grant applications
– Mechanisms
• AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08)
• AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36)
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
• Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): Interest in Career Development (K08) and Dissertation (R36) Grants Focused on Health Information Technology (IT)
– NOT-HS-13-011: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-13-011.html
• Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21)
– PA-14-001: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-001.html
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
• Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21)
– Fund exploratory and developmental research grants that will contribute to the evidence base of how health IT improves health care quality
– Three study types:
1. Pilot and feasibility or self-contained health IT research projects;
2. Secondary data analysis of health IT research; and
3. Economic (prospective or retrospective) analyses of a health IT project
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Recent Funding Opportunities
• SENs: Call for Applications to Address Health IT Safety
– R01: NOT-HS-14-007 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-
files/NOT-HS-14-007.html)
– R21: NOT-HS-14-008 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-
files/NOT-HS-14-008.html)
• SEN: Interest in Research on Health IT Safety
– NOT-HS-15-005: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-
files/NOT-HS-15-005.html
– Also R01s and R21s
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Upcoming Funding Opportunity
• Dissemination of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings through clinical decision support
– For more information http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-15-002.html
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Other AHRQ Funding Opportunities
• AHRQ Small Research Grant Program (R03)
– PA-15-147: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-
147.html
• AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)
– PA-14-291: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-
291.html
• AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)
– PA-14-290: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-
290.html
http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/fund-opps/index.html
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Questions?
For more information:
www.healthit.ahrq.gov
@AHRQNews