HealthIT Answers July 8, 2020
By Gopal Khanna, MBA, Director of AHRQ
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that we need answers, now more than ever, to the complex challenges that can undercut our healthcare system’s effectiveness:
- How can we shorten the time frame between identifying the most urgent research questions and producing research findings?
- Once research is completed, how can we make sure that findings and tools are rapidly disseminated and applied to improve patient care?
- How do we strike the right balance between adherence to the tenets of scientific rigor while responding to today’s real-world needs to improve care?
- How do we assess and document the impact of the research we oversee?
As director of AHRQ, an agency long dedicated to...