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• Evidence Behind Targeted Therapies Called Inadequate

  
  http://www.gooznews.com/ — Authority: 531
  How solid is the evidence behind the new targeted therapies for fighting cancer? Not very, according to a new technology assessment from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. read more
  3 days ago

• AHRQ Ad Campaign: Questions are the Answer

  
  A Nurse Practitioner's View — Authority: 98
  I came across this well thought out commercial that has appeared on TV from the U.S. Department of Human Health & Services Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality ( AHRQ ). Their website has a few other public service announcement-type of ads. With their, "Questions are the Answer" campaign, they are ...
  4 days ago

• Lower Back Pain Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 155
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US – November 05, 2009 — RemedyMD , the leading provider of Disease Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide lower back pain ...
  6 days ago

• Neonatal Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 155
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US,November 04, 2009 — RemedyMD , the leading provider of Disease Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide neonatal registry to ...
  1 week ago

• Cervical Pain Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 155
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, USA, November 03, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of Disease Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide cervical pain ...
  1 week ago

• Prostate Cancer Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 155
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US, October 28, 2009 — RemedyMD , the leading provider of Patient Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide Prostate Cancer ...
  1 week ago

• Pediatric Obesity Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 155
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US , October 26, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of disease registry software, today announced the first nationwide pediatric obesity ...
  1 week ago

• Pediatric Obesity Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  Press About — Authority: 156
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US , October 26, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of disease registry software, today announced the first nationwide pediatric obesity ...
  1 week ago

• AHRQ Report: Consumers Need to be Empowered in Health IT Debate

  
  The World We'll Inherit — Authority: 114
  via scribd.com A new study out the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) suggests that by excluding consumers from the broader implementation of health information technologies, the medical community is marginalizing themselves and prolonging the time it will take to reach high levels of consumer ...
  1 week ago

• Consumer Informatics Improve Health

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  A new report confirms that electronic tools and online technology can help improve health care processes that relate to behavioral compliance. Adherence to medication and improved clinical outcomes — such as smoking cessation — were discovered upon a review of 146 published research studies of patient-focused ...
  2 weeks ago

• AHRQ interviews Ornstein, talks medical errors

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 431
  Robert Wachter, M.D., ( bio ), editor of AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality), interviewed AHCJ President Charles Ornstein , of ProPublica, for a recent issue ( get the audio version here ). Their conversation began as a general discussion of health journalism, then zeroed in on hospital errors and the Pulitzer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Common Efficiency Measures

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 496
  Measuring efficiency is a difficult business. As AHRQ ,  “In most cases, individuals and firms will define efficiency as a relationship between what it costs them and what service or outcome they receive, rather than as a trait inherent in the provider.” Further, efficiency can be measured as either ...
  3 weeks ago

• AHRQ: Please Get A Social Media Strategy

  
  Better Health — Authority: 600
  Last night, I saw a commercial produced by the federal government.  Called “Questions are the Answer,” it’s a call for patients to be engaged in their medical care, to ask questions of their doctors in order to be sure of their medical condition. The commercial was excellent – it showed a man asking dozens ...
  3 weeks ago

• Free Video on Blood Thinner Pills from AHRQ

  
  Healthy Hearts with Heartstrong — Authority: 461
  People often worry about how routine medicines like blood thinner pills will affect their lifestyles. With a few simple steps, taking a blood thinner can be safe and easy. In fact, more than 2 million people take blood thinners every day to keep them from developing dangerous blood clots. Staying Active and Healthy ...
  5 weeks ago

• BREAST CANCER: THE DIFFERENT SIDE EFFECTS OF 3 DRUGS

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 150
  Three drugs, including tamoxifen, reduce a womans chance of getting breast cancer , but each drug carries distinct potential harms of its own, according to a new report from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Drugs to reduce the risk of breast ...
  8 weeks ago

• Presentation: PHRs, What Are They Good For?

  
  My Mind, Body & Health — Authority: 154
  Chilmark Research had the privilege and honor to present and moderate a session at the AHRQ’09 event here in Washington DC yesterday. Title of the session was PHRs: What Are They Good For? Along with Chilmark Research, we had Kim Slocum of KDS, James Hereford of Group Health and Ted Eytan of Kaiser-Permanente, each ...
  8 weeks ago

• “What are PHRs Good For?” : Presentation at AHRQ Annual Conference September 14, 2009

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 427
  Attached below are the slides from the presentation I gave yesterday at the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research Annual Conference, entitled “PHR’s What Are They Good For? “ An important thing I learned about yesterday’s session is that it was the first ever annual conference session in AHRQ’s ...
  8 weeks ago

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