[paula_w]

This sounds like what we want to do right here at Neuro Talk. I put out a call for ideas at the picnic before Shake Rattle and Roll. So what are we going to do? I still think we should make videos. No one has a patent on You Tube videos.

paula


The basic text of the RFI:

Request for Information (RFI): AHRQ Requests Input to Develop an Innovations
Research Portfolio

Notice Number: NOT-HS-08-013

Key Dates
Release Date: August 15, 2008

Issued by
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Summary

AHRQ is establishing a new research portfolio, the Innovations Portfolio. The
Portfolio goal is to identify and support research that has the potential to
accelerate improvements in the organization, delivery, and management of
healthcare. At this time, AHRQ seeks ideas on priority topics and activities
that should be addressed as components of the Innovations Portfolio.

Background

The Innovations Portfolio will be focused on creating resources and opportunity
for exploration and discovery, including identifying and supporting research
that has the potential for high impact. The research will be novel and span a
diverse array of disciplines. The portfolio will foster and nurture ideas and
projects that have the potential to lead to highly innovative solutions that may
lead to significant advances in healthcare organization, delivery, and
management. Research and activities supported under the Innovations Portfolio
will reflect ideas substantially different from those already being pursued by
AHRQ. The portfolio will fund a transformative research agenda to solve
pressing healthcare problems. Thus, the main focus of the portfolio will be
problem solving in order to accelerate improvement in healthcare.

Ideas are sought for topics to be supported by the Innovations Portfolio.
Ideas are also sought regarding specific strategies to foster innovative
approaches and programs. Comments and ideas may address new and emerging
priority issues, areas that should be the focus of research in the Innovations
Portfolio, mechanisms for identifying and engaging partners for this important
work, or any other related topic.

Responses

Responses to this request should be submitted to AHRQ within 60 days of the
publication date of this Notice. Submissions should be brief (no more than
three pages per recommendation), and should be in the form of a letter or
e-mail, preferably with an electronic file in a standard word processing format
as an e-mail attachment.

Responses should be submitted to Francis D. Chesley, Jr., M.D., Agency for
Health Care Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Room 2034, Rockville, MD
20850, FAX: (301) 427-1562, e-mail: Francis.Chesley@ahrq.hhs.gov.

In order to facilitate handling of submissions, please include full information
about the person submitting the recommendation, including: (a) name, (b) title,
(c) organization, (d) mailing address, (e) telephone number, and (f) e-mail
address. Please do not use acronyms.
Inquiries

Questions about this RFI should be directed to:

Francis D. Chesley, Jr., M.D.
Phone: (301) 427-1449
Email: Francis.Chesley@ahrq.hhs.gov

Weekly TOC for this Announcement
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices

[paula_w]

Blog from Fastercures:

Will health IT and personalized medicine transform our broken system?
Margaret Anderson, COO, FasterCures, posted a blog in response to a recent Health Affairs article. Anderson notes how interesting it is to think about systems change at the front end, and how easy it is to get stars in our eyes about how things such as health IT or personalized medicine will transform the world as we know it, and how all of our problems will then magically go away. In this blog she asks, "Can we make it real?"

http://fastercures.blogspot.com/2008...-thinking.html