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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 9:144-160 (2002)
© 2002 American Medical Informatics Association

Review Paper

Three Decades of Research on Computer Applications in Health Care

Medical Informatics Support at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

J. Michael Fitzmaurice, PhD, Karen Adams and John M. Eisenberg, MD

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland (JMF, JME); University of Maryland School of Medicine, Rockville, Maryland.

Correspondence and reprints: J Michael Fitzmaurice, PhD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2101 East Jefferson Street, Suite 600, Rockville, MD 20852; e-mail: <Mfitzmau{at}ahrq.gov>.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and its predecessor organizations—collectively referred to here as AHRQ—have a productive history of funding research and development in the field of medical informatics, with grant investments since 1968 totaling $107 million. Many computerized interventions that are commonplace today, such as drug interaction alerts, had their genesis in early AHRQ initiatives.

This review provides a historical perspective on AHRQ investment in medical informatics research. It shows that grants provided by AHRQ resulted in achievements that include advancing automation in the clinical laboratory and radiology, assisting in technology development (computer languages, software, and hardware), evaluating the effectiveness of computer-based medical information systems, facilitating the evolution of computer-aided decision making, promoting computer-initiated quality assurance programs, backing the formation and application of comprehensive data banks, enhancing the management of specific conditions such as HIV infection, and supporting health data coding and standards initiatives.

Other federal agencies and private organizations have also supported research in medical informatics, some earlier and to a greater degree than AHRQ. The results and relative roles of these related efforts are beyond the scope of this review.




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