In June, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 2006 Annual Patient Safety and Health Information Technology Conference brought together the nation’s leading innovators and implementers of on-the-ground solutions for improving health care safety and quality. Nearly 700 people attended.
Now, a rich array of conference materials – including speaker bios and downloadable PowerPoint presentations – is available to the public free of charge at the online AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology.
These new materials tell the stories of how AHRQ-funded patient safety and health information technology (IT) projects across the country are:
- Implementing new interventions and technologies that improve care
- Measuring and managing innovations in everyday clinical practice that reduce medical errors
- Advancing community health through regional health information exchange
- Creating a culture of safety across various health care settings
At the online National Resource Center, you can also:
- Tap into the Health Costs & Benefits Database Project, a searchable database that contains hundreds of studies and articles on the costs, benefits, and barriers related to health IT implementation.
- Learn about important Initiatives for Change, which highlights innovative approaches to improving health care quality and safety through IT. Current features include an overview on health information exchange, details on the Connecting for Health Common Framework, and a profile of the Indiana Network for Patient Care.
- Explore the Knowledge Library, with links to more than 6,000 health IT tools, best practices, and published evidence.
