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Modernizing the Front Door to Care Requires More Than Better Phones

Jason Free — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:59:52 +0000

The contact center has quietly become the operational bottleneck, and reputational liability, of healthcare’s digital transformation strategy. As the first point of contact for scheduling, triage, refills, and referrals, patient access centers now function less as administrative conveniences and more as real-time coordination engines.

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AHRQ Announces Funding Opportunities to Establish State-based Solutions to Accelerate Healthcare Improvement

Jason Free — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:53:10 +0000

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to establish state-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives, representing a historic investment to accelerate the implementation and dissemination of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) into health care delivery through improvements in health care policy, payment, and practice, and to reduce health care disparities, especially among people who receive Medicaid, are uninsured, and/or are medically underserved.

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UC San Diego Receives $5 Million to Launch Center for Learning Health Systems Science

Jason Free — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:32:38 +0000

University of California San Diego School of Medicine has received a $5 million, five-year grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to establish a Center for Learning Health Systems Science.

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Guiding Principles Help Healthcare Community Address Potential Bias Resulting from Algorithms

Jason Free — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:03:38 +0000

A paper published in JAMA Network Open addresses the use of healthcare algorithms and provides the healthcare community with guiding principles to avoid repeating errors that have tainted the use of algorithms in other sectors.

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HHS Awards $45 Million in Grants to Expand Access to Care for People with Long COVID

Jason Free — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:46:41 +0000

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support existing multidisciplinary Long COVID clinics across the country to expand access to comprehensive, coordinated, and person-centered care for people with Long COVID, particularly underserved, rural, vulnerable, and minority populations that are disproportionately impacted by the effects of Long COVID.

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