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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Janey Hsiao, Health Scientist
Administrator, Center for Evidence and
Practice Improvement, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, 5600
Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E73A,
Rockville, Maryland, 20857, Email:
Janey.hsiao@ahrq.hhs.gov, Phone: (301)
427–1335.
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AGENCY:
Background
The patient’s perspective is central to
healthcare decisions affecting
prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and
long-term care. Patient-reported
outcomes (PROs) critically inform
patient-centered outcomes research
(PCOR) and can inform clinical
management of individuals, shared
decision making, patient selfmanagement support, care planning,
goal setting and goal attainment. PROs
offer a complementary perspective to
that of clinician assessments, and may
provide greater insights into health
status, function, symptom burden,
adherence, health behaviors, and quality
of life. However, standardized tools that
collect PRO data in a way that is
meaningful and useful to both patients
and clinicians in primary care and
ambulatory settings are not widely
available.
The limited inclusion of PRO data in
electronic health records (EHRs) and
other health information technology (IT)
solutions reduces the understanding
and use of the patient’s perspective in
research and clinical care. Further,
while some EHRs are currently able to
capture some structured PRO data,
including many of the NIH-funded
Patient Reported Outcomes
Measurement Information System®
(PROMIS®) instruments, this
information is not commonly collected
in routine care. Thus, these data are
often not available for both clinical care
and research. Moreover, standards do
not exist for collecting and integrating
PRO data into health IT systems,
thereby limiting the ability to easily
share these data across health systems
for research or other purposes including
quality improvement.
This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to
conduct a Challenge Competition in Fall
2018 to develop user-friendly technical
tools to collect and integrate patientreported outcome data in electronic
health records or other health
information technology products.
Proposed Project
To fill these gaps, AHRQ intends to
support the development of userfriendly, PRO-collection tools that
utilize health IT standards, including
application programming interfaces
(APIs) to collect physical function data
in ambulatory care settings (including
primary care). Data element and data
capture standards would allow for PRO
assessments to be conducted and easily
shared regardless of what EHR or health
Dated: December 19, 2017.
Gopal Khanna,
Director.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
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Notice of an Upcoming Challenge
Competition
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Department of
Health and Human Services.
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allow for consistency in interpretation,
and clarify the meaning of results for
patient-provider communication and
shared decision-making.
The development of user-friendly,
PRO-collection tools will be conducted
though a multi-phase Challenge
Competition in Fall 2018. The statutory
authority for this challenge competition
is Section 105 of the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
2010. Only the winners from each phase
can move on to the next phase so the
participant pool becomes more limited
throughout the competition. Developers
will be asked to create tools based on
implementation specifications provided
by AHRQ. The tools should enable
patients to share their physical function
data with clinicians and researchers.
AHRQ will convene a panel to judge the
Challenge Competition. The judges of
the Challenge Competition will evaluate
the resulting submissions for adhering
to the implementation specifications set
forth in the Challenge Competition.
AHRQ will manage the Challenge
Competition including developing the
concept, designing prizes, drafting the
Federal Register Notice, setting up the
Challenge website, answering questions
from developers, and giving prizes to
winners. The Challenge Competition
will be conducted by AHRQ in
furtherance of the Secretary’s authority
to develop interoperable data networks
that can link data from multiple sources,
including electronic health records. 42
U.S.C. 299b–37(f).
Dated: December 19, 2017.
Gopal Khanna,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Notice of an Upcoming Challenge Competition
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to conduct a Challenge
Competition in Fall 2018 to develop user-friendly technical tools to
collect and integrate patient-reported outcome data in electronic
health records or other health information technology products.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janey Hsiao, Health Scientist
Administrator, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, 5600 Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E73A,
Rockville, Maryland, 20857, Email: [email protected], Phone:
(301) 427-1335.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The patient's perspective is central to healthcare decisions
affecting prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care.
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) critically inform patient-centered
outcomes research (PCOR) and can inform clinical management of
individuals, shared decision making, patient self-management support,
care planning, goal setting and goal attainment. PROs offer a
complementary perspective to that of clinician assessments, and may
provide greater insights into health status, function, symptom burden,
adherence, health behaviors, and quality of life. However, standardized
tools that collect PRO data in a way that is meaningful and useful to
both patients and clinicians in primary care and ambulatory settings
are not widely available.
The limited inclusion of PRO data in electronic health records
(EHRs) and other health information technology (IT) solutions reduces
the understanding and use of the patient's perspective in research and
clinical care. Further, while some EHRs are currently able to capture
some structured PRO data, including many of the NIH-funded Patient
Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System[supreg]
(PROMIS[supreg]) instruments, this information is not commonly
collected in routine care. Thus, these data are often not available for
both clinical care and research. Moreover, standards do not exist for
collecting and integrating PRO data into health IT systems, thereby
limiting the ability to easily share these data across health systems
for research or other purposes including quality improvement.
Proposed Project
To fill these gaps, AHRQ intends to support the development of
user-friendly, PRO-collection tools that utilize health IT standards,
including application programming interfaces (APIs) to collect physical
function data in ambulatory care settings (including primary care).
Data element and data capture standards would allow for PRO assessments
to be conducted and easily shared regardless of what EHR or health IT
solution is being used. It would also allow for consistency in
interpretation, and clarify the meaning of results for patient-provider
communication and shared decision-making.
The development of user-friendly, PRO-collection tools will be
conducted though a multi-phase Challenge Competition in Fall 2018. The
statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section 105 of
the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. Only the winners from
each phase can move on to the next phase so the participant pool
becomes more limited throughout the competition. Developers will be
asked to create tools based on implementation specifications provided
by AHRQ. The tools should enable patients to share their physical
function data with clinicians and researchers. AHRQ will convene a
panel to judge the Challenge Competition. The judges of the Challenge
Competition will evaluate the resulting submissions for adhering to the
implementation specifications set forth in the Challenge Competition.
AHRQ will manage the Challenge Competition including developing the
concept, designing prizes, drafting the Federal Register Notice,
setting up the Challenge website, answering questions from developers,
and giving prizes to winners. The Challenge Competition will be
conducted by AHRQ in furtherance of the Secretary's authority to
develop interoperable data networks that can link data from multiple
sources, including electronic health records. 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(f).
Dated: December 19, 2017.
Gopal Khanna,
Director.
[FR Doc. 2017-27663 Filed 12-22-17; 8:45 am]
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