Current Grants and Funding Support
The Safer Dx team is supported through several grants. The team not only receives federal grants through programs such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also through organizations such as the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Read more about our team’s funding below:
Grant Title: The Safer Dx Learning Lab: A Demonstration Project for Improving Diagnostic Safety [Singh]
Funding Agency: GBMF - The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Description: The goal of this project is to create the “Safer Dx Learning Lab,” a novel program of diagnostic safety surveillance and improvement that gathers and learns from actionable intelligence related to diagnostic missed opportunities within a large integrated health system.
Grant Title: The Diagnosis Improvement Safety Center (DISCovery) [Singh]
Funding Agency: VA - Department of Veteran Affairs
Description: The goal of DISCovery is to develop, implement, and evaluate tools and strategies for measurement and feedback related to missed test results using collaborative approaches to engage clinicians and facility leadership.
Grant Title: Decision Making and Clinical Work of Test Result Follow-Up in Health IT Settings [Singh]
Funding Agency: AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Description: The goal of this proposal is to study test result follow-up practices (across healthcare institutions that use various electronic health record systems) and to understand why abnormal test results are missed.
Grant Title: Measuring and Improving the Safety of Test Result Follow-Up [Singh]
Funding Agency: VA – Department of Veteran Affairs
Description: The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a new multifaceted VA facility-based systems approach for surveillance and improvement of test results follow-up.
Grant Title: Engaging Patients in Diagnostic Error Reporting [Giardina]
Funding Agency: AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Description: The goal of this proposal is to collect rich and illustrative diagnostic error experiences from patients, and develop and test an electronic patient-centered diagnostic error reporting system to help create actionable data for health care systems.
Grant Title: Understanding Physicians’ Diagnostic Accuracy in the EHR Era [Meyer]
Funding Agency: VA – Department of Veteran Affairs
Description: The goal of this project is to examine the relationships between diagnostic accuracy and characteristics of physicians’ decision making and how they use the electronic health record in their decision making.
Grant Title: Understanding Provider Workflow Needs in Electronic Communication [Murphy]
Funding Agency: AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Description: The goal of this project is to improve the understanding of physicians’ information needs during processing of messages within electronic health record (EHR)-based inboxes and to identify methods to improve situational awareness and efficiency of EHR-based inbox message processing.
