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| Dr. J. Marc Overhage, associate
professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine and research scientist
at the Regenstrief Institute for Healthcare, has received a three
year, $1.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services.
AHRQ awarded the money to study how information technology can improve
patient safety. The project will focus on patients with two prevalent
and costly conditions: congestive heart failure and asthma. Overhage
and his research team will use the Regenstrief Medical Records System,
which contains 30 years of various patient data, to study how information
technology can improve patient safey by identifying "indicators" of
potential errors in the care of outpatients and changes in the health-care
delivery system that can potentially reduce the "indicators."
http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_01/nra01.html
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