By Robert Otto Valdez PhD – I am thrilled to announce that 2024 represents a momentous milestone: the 35th anniversary of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This is a time to reflect on our rich history, what we have accomplished, and the partners that helped us get to this moment.
Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. This week’s Friday Five rounds up some resources and events regarding patient safety.
From the AHRQ Blog – A few decades ago, a band of creative thinkers envisioned that information technology could revolutionize healthcare. It seems obvious now. At the time, it was anything but. Those innovators foresaw how machines and related information systems could make delivering healthcare services more cost-efficient and improve the quality and safety of care.
The HHS, through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support existing multidisciplinary Long COVID clinics across the country to expand access to comprehensive, coordinated, and person-centered care for people with Long COVID, particularly…
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA -The COVID-19 public health emergency ended on May 11th. Several signals indicate that progress has stalled or reversed due to the stresses that the pandemic put on our local delivery systems and their workforces.
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA – In recent years, primary care physicians have struggled with burnout brought on by a confluence of factors—more patients with multiple health problems, paperwork requirements for reimbursement, and complications overcoming delay, deny, and defend tactics of health insurers.
By Edmondo Robinson MD MBA – In late January, AHRQ hosted a summit for providers treating Long COVID patients. This summit, believed to be the first of its kind, was co-hosted by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), whom himself has suffered from the condition.
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD, MHSA – I am pleased to report that the proposed Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal released by the White House on March 9 endorses AHRQ’s work to serve communities nationwide. It offers a blueprint to improve healthcare delivery systems by…
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA & Nakela L. Cook MD – The benefits of learning health systems are increasingly evident in today’s data-rich healthcare environment. By collecting and analyzing data and experience from diverse sources, these systems are able to generate the best evidence to…
By Susan Edgman-Levitan PA – The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many truths about our Nation. Among them: Americans are increasingly able and, in many instances, willing to engage in new activities at home. These include work, school, shopping, exercise, social gathering, worship—and healthcare.
By Caroline Carney MD MSc, Asaf Bitton MD MPH, & Patrick S. Romano MD MPH – Patients, policymakers, and practitioners recognized an acute need for change in the country’s behavioral health systems of care even before…
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA – Nearly three years after COVID-19’s unwelcome arrival, the U.S. healthcare system is still staggering under the strain. The pandemic’s worst aspects may be behind us, but its effects reverberate today among patients, clinicians, and healthcare workers.
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