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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Dated: January 4, 2017.
David A. Shive,
Chief Information Officer.
Request for Information—Learning
Healthcare Systems
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Request for Information.
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
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The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking
information from healthcare delivery
organizations about current challenges
they are facing and solutions they are
implementing as they seek to become
learning healthcare systems. AHRQ is
also seeking to identify opportunities
such organizations see for the Agency to
assist them in this work—for example
by summarizing best practices, creating
training materials, developing
standardized metrics, and/or convening
learning networks.
DATES: Submission deadline on or
before February 28, 2017.
ADDRESSES:
Email submissions:
LearningHealthSystem@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
Mailing Address: Learning Healthcare
Systems, Office of the Director, Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality,
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD
20857.
SUMMARY:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
OFFICE
Request for Medicaid and CHIP
Payment and Access Commission
Nominations
U.S. Government
Accountability Office (GAO).
AGENCY:
Request for letters of
nomination and resumes.
ACTION:
The Children’s Health
Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
of 2009 (CHIPRA) established the
Medicaid and CHIP Payment and
Access Commission (MACPAC) to
review Medicaid and CHIP access and
payment policies and to advise Congress
on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP.
CHIPRA gave the Comptroller General
of the United States responsibility for
appointing MACPAC’s members. GAO
is now accepting nominations to
MACPAC that will be effective May 1,
2017. Letters of nomination and
resumes should be submitted no later
than February 24, 2017 to ensure
adequate opportunity for review and
consideration of nominees prior to
appointment of new members.
Nominations should be sent to the email
or mailing address listed below.
Acknowledgement of submissions will
be provided within a week of
submission. Please contact Will Black at
(202) 512–6482 if you do not receive an
acknowledgement.
SUMMARY:
ADDRESSES:
Email: MACPACappointments@
gao.gov.
Mail: U.S. GAO, Attn: MACPAC
Appointments, 441 G Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20548.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
GAO: Office of Public Affairs, (202)
512–4800. Public Law 111–3, Section
506; 42 U.S.C. 1396.
Gene L. Dodaro,
Comptroller General of the United States.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brigid Russell, Office of the Director,
LearningHealthSystem@AHRQ.hhs.gov,
301–427–1886.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
mission of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is to
produce evidence to make health care
safer, higher quality, more accessible,
equitable, and affordable, and to work
within the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services and with other
public and private partners to make sure
that the evidence is understood and
used. The Agency strives to meet this
mission by investing in research and
generating needed evidence that
supports disseminating tested practices,
creating materials to teach and train
health care systems and professionals to
catalyze improvements in care, and
developing measures and data used to
track and improve performance. To
learn more about the Agency, visit
AHRQ.gov.
The National Academy of Medicine
(formerly the Institute of Medicine or
IOM) has described a learning
healthcare system as an organization
that ‘‘is designed to generate and apply
the best evidence for the collaborative
healthcare choices of each patient and
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provider; to drive the process of
discovery as a natural outgrowth of
patient care; and to ensure innovation,
quality, safety, and value in health
care.’’ 1
Several trends within healthcare
delivery are increasing the potential for
the development of learning healthcare
systems including the consolidation of
ambulatory, in-patient, and post-acute
care settings of care into integrated
delivery systems, the evolution of health
information systems, and increased
attention to population health
management. AHRQ is interested in
understanding how healthcare
professionals and organizations in the
United States are currently working to
become learning healthcare systems and
in identifying high-leverage
opportunities for the Agency to support
this transformation.
Healthcare delivery organizations,
both small and large, can function as
learning healthcare systems,
systematically gathering and creating
evidence and applying the most
promising evidence-based practices to
improve their care delivery. AHRQ
wants to better understand the process
by which organizations and
professionals select evidence to
implement and the strategies used to
move evidence into everyday practice.
AHRQ is interested in hearing from the
full range of healthcare delivery
organizations including individual
ambulatory practices, community health
center networks, hospitals, individual
components (such as departments)
within larger organizations, networks of
practices, accountable care
organizations, and integrated delivery
systems.
Specific questions of interest to the
Agency include, but are not limited to:
• How are learning healthcare
systems utilizing their own data to
inform clinical and organizational
improvements in healthcare delivery,
design, and efficiency?
• Are learning healthcare systems
using their own data to inform strategies
to address population health and
healthcare disparities?
• What methodological and/or data
quality issues have been encountered by
the health care delivery organizations in
generating evidence utilizing their own
data?
• How do learning healthcare systems
ensure that evidence either generated
from their own data and/or adopted
from external research is applied in a
1 Institute of Medicine/National Academy of
Medicine. The Learning Healthcare System:
Workshop Summary. Olsen L, Aisner D, McGinnis
JM, eds. Washington, DC: National Academies
Press; 2007.
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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
Request for Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
Nominations
AGENCY: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
ACTION: Request for letters of nomination and resumes.
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SUMMARY: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of
2009 (CHIPRA) established the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access
Commission (MACPAC) to review Medicaid and CHIP access and payment
policies and to advise Congress on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP.
CHIPRA gave the Comptroller General of the United States responsibility
for appointing MACPAC's members. GAO is now accepting nominations to
MACPAC that will be effective May 1, 2017. Letters of nomination and
resumes should be submitted no later than February 24, 2017 to ensure
adequate opportunity for review and consideration of nominees prior to
appointment of new members. Nominations should be sent to the email or
mailing address listed below. Acknowledgement of submissions will be
provided within a week of submission. Please contact Will Black at
(202) 512-6482 if you do not receive an acknowledgement.
ADDRESSES:
Email: MACPACappointments@gao.gov.
Mail: U.S. GAO, Attn: MACPAC Appointments, 441 G Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20548.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
GAO: Office of Public Affairs, (202) 512-4800. Public Law 111-3,
Section 506; 42 U.S.C. 1396.
Gene L. Dodaro,
Comptroller General of the United States.
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