Pantheon tasked with building AHRQ's public reporting tool

Pantheon has entered into a five-year, $11.6 million contract with the federal government to redesign and expand a website building tool offered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

MONAHRQ, which stands for “My Own Network powered by AHRQ,” is intended to help healthcare organizations create websites where they can publicly report performance in areas including hospital ratings, hospital utilization, preventable hospitalizations and rates of conditions and procedures, according to a Dec. 3 statement.

The downloadable tool has been available for three years. Pantheon, an IT services firm headquartered in Arlington, Va., is tasked with leading an advisory committee to evaluate MONAHRQ and identify areas for improvement. That work will lead to a redesign of the platform, expected to be available in March 2014, to reflect current best practices for public reporting.