By Gopal Khanna – When I look ahead to 2019, I have no doubt that AHRQ will continue to identify and tackle some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare.
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By Gopal Khanna – As my colleagues and I come to work each day, we are keenly aware that all of our efforts are ultimately aimed at serving the needs of a single customer: the patient.
By Gopal Khanna – I’m very excited to tell you about the 10 winners from the first phase of the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge. Their stellar work moves us closer to achieving the goal of developing an app that integrates standardized patient-reported outcomes data into clinical care and research.
By Gopal Khanna – AHRQ launched the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge, a three-phase competition to address the need for greater use of standardized PRO data in clinical care and research. The total prize pool for the challenge is $250,000.
By Gopal Khanna MBA – As I prepared to travel to Seattle for AcademyHealth’s 35th Annual Research Meeting, I had been thinking about the opportunity the meeting would afford to begin a critical dialog about the future of health services research.
By Gopal Khanna – Recently, I marked my one-year anniversary as Director of AHRQ. In reflecting on how we can build on what we’ve achieved so far, I’m impressed with many things, including how quickly the year went by!
By Gopal Khanna – Can you imagine a world with unlimited access to the data that users need? I posed this question recently to an impressive audience of Federal, State, and local policymakers, researchers, health experts and entrepreneurs.
By Gopal Khanna MBA – A few weeks ago, I wrote about my vision for creating an AHRQ 2.0—transforming the Agency into a leader in health services research in a digital age. I described four pillars that are central to this effort. The first pillar is: developing a platform to create data-informed insights.
By Gopal Khanna & Joe Selby – The health care community is finding common ground when it comes to identifying essential elements of a learning health system.