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Health Information Technology Research (AHRQ)

The Health Information Technology Research program funds grants and contracts aimed at understanding how health information technology (IT) can improve the quality of health care, and disseminates these research findings through its website [http://healthit.ahrq.gov], conferences, and webinars.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program lacks performance measures to gauge how well it is developing and disseminating research on how health IT can improve the quality of health care. The program has been inappropriately measuring its success based on adoption rates of health IT tools.
  • The program's website struggles to reach its intended audience and lacks practical information. A 2008 program evaluation found that health care stakeholders want to see "how to" tools designed to assist projects at all stages.
  • The program lacks an efficiency measure. Such a measure would allow the program to measure and achieve efficiencies and cost effectiveness in program execution.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing new performance measures, which will gauge the program's success in developing and disseminating research on how health IT can improve the quality of health care.
  • Improving the program's website by making the content more practical and useful, and improving the search functionality.
  • Developing an efficiency measure that will demonstrate program managers' efforts to improve economy in the acquisition and utilization of resources.

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