AHRQ grants $48K to AHIMA to spearhead rural health IT summit
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded health information management nonprofit, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation, a $48,000 research development conference grant to lead a two-day summit, based on a project to improve health services research agenda to leverage health IT in rural America.
The summit is scheduled for April 2010 in Washington, D.C.
According to the Chicago-based AHIMA, the conference objectives are to:
The summit is scheduled for April 2010 in Washington, D.C.
According to the Chicago-based AHIMA, the conference objectives are to:
- Present and discuss the economic and strategic impact of health IT on pay-for-quality improvement efforts with a focus on rural areas, healthcare disparities, workforce shortages, safety and quality—such as privacy, data accuracy and security.
- Discuss current challenges and controversies that include policy and practice in quality improvement, and the current state of the research.
- Create a quality improvement-based research agenda to address gaps in current research, policy and practice.