The Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) recently published a guidance to provide basic federal funding information. Portions of the guidance include:
- The Human Subjects Protection policy
- Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information prepared by the Office of Civil Rights, with online tools to protect patient information
- Freedom of Information Act as it applies to patient data
- The Healthy People 2020 initiative created by AHRQ as a public health service
- AHRQ grant assessment programs such as the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (MEPS) programs
- Informed Consent requirements AHRQ federal research areas are defined within Portfolios of Research:
- Comparative Effectiveness and specific areas of clinical research
- Health Information Technology
- Patient Safety
- Prevention and Care Management
- Innovations and Emerging Issues portfolio
- The Value portfolio, which provides measures, data and tools to improve the value of healthcare
~ The Department of Health & Human Services FY 2012 annual report
~ AHRQ Grants Policy & Guidance
~ AHRQ R01 research objectives
~AHRQ R18 research objectives
