20 Years of AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Funding: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Presentation Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Abstract Keywords: Healthcare Quality, Education and Training, Delivering Health Information and Knowledge to the Public, Informatics Implementation
Primary Track: Foundations
Programmatic Theme: Clinical Research Informatics

In 2024, AHRQ will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of its Digital Healthcare Research (DHR) Program, which has funded critical research in areas such as patient safety, clinical decision support, telehealth, and patient reported outcomes. Several DHR Program grantees have also received the prestigious Morris F. Collen Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American College of Medical Informatics. This panel will provide the perspective of four Collen Awardees, who have also been AHRQ-funded researchers, on the impact of health services research funding on the field of biomedical and health informatics over the last twenty years and on where the most pressing research needs will be over the next twenty years. This will be an interactive discussion among the panelists and with the audience, covering topics such as generative artificial intelligence, clinician burden, community and patient engagement, scaling innovation to underserved settings, and training the next generation of informatics researchers.

Moderator:
Edwin Lomotan, MD
AHRQ

Speaker(s):
David Bates, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

James Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FAMIA
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Suzanne Bakken, RN, PhD
Columbia University School of Nursing

Patricia Brennan, RN
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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