AHRQ Highlights Data Analysis as Tool to Improve Health Care Quality and Equity
Per the notice below, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is highlighting research on using data analysis to improve health care quality and equity.
Grantee Profile Highlights Work of Tina Hernandez-Boussard To Improve Healthcare Quality, Equity Through Data Analysis
| Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate dean of research at Stanford University School of Medicine, has dedicated her career to analyzing “clinical big data” to identify quality and safety issues that can result in adverse events. With funding from AHRQ, she has reviewed large datasets, such as ones with administrative claims data and electronic health records, to develop evidence-based standards, guidelines, and decision-making tools for general healthcare practice, including surgical specialties and pain management. In conducting her research, Dr. Hernandez-Boussard, who is also a professor of medicine, biomedical data science, and surgery at Stanford, is working to address and unravel bias in healthcare data. Check out Dr. Hernandez-Boussard’s profile and the profiles of other AHRQ grantees. |
