HealthIT Answers November 5, 2020
By Gopal Khanna, MBA, Director of AHRQ and Chris Dymek, Ed.D, Director of AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program
As we look at today’s rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem, one thing is clear: innovations in digital technology have enormous potential for improving patient care.
But equally true is the reality that implementing these advances—making sure that new digital technologies have practical benefits for patients and clinicians—can be very challenging.
Earlier this year, we announced that the Agency had launched the Division of Digital Healthcare Research (DHR). We did so because the advances that digital technology represent are only possible if the new discoveries and innovations impacting people and processes are successfully tied to improvements in safety and quality of care, patient outcomes,...