Table 2.
Technologies Addressed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Information Technology (Health IT) Projects
| Type of Grantee |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of Health IT | Planning | Implementation | Value | Total |
| Decision support | 18 | 29 | 18 | 65 |
| Computerized provider order entry | 11 | 15 | 9 | 34 |
| Electronic prescribing | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Electronic health records | 21 | 22 | 2 | 45 |
| Patient decision support | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| Results reporting | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| Data collection and summary | 9 | 13 | 4 | 26 |
| Data exchange and information | 32 | 24 | 3 | 59 |
| Knowledge retrieval systems | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Communication systems | 8 | 7 | 7 | 22 |
| Mobile computing | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| Administrative | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Not specified | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Average number of technologies per project | 3.2 | 3.3 | 2.2 | |
Note: Data were derived from the AHRQ master file of patient safety projects and grantee proposals. Categorization was based on a taxonomy developed by RAND (Girosi, Meili, and Scoville 2005).