News and Events of Interest
Alzheimer’s Grant Awarded to Dr. Teigland and Staff In fiscal 2006, the Alzheimer’s Association funded a total of about $21 million in research initiatives. EQUIP Director of Health Informatics and Research, Dr. Christie Teigland, and her research team, was one of 96 investigators awarded funding through its annual grant competition. This years projects represent proposals ranked highest by their peer reviewers in an extremely competitive field of 644 applications. Read more…DHHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Features Dr. Teigland as Investigator of the Month
EQUIP Director of Health Informatics and Research, Dr. Christie Teigland, was featured as the Investigator of the Month by the DHHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) . AHRQ interviewed Dr. Teigland to learn how she and her team of researchers, nurses and statistical programmers successfully developed the EQUIP risk assessment models that can identify residents most at risk for adverse outcomes. To learn more about the challenges of using technology to improve quality of care in nursing homes
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Software Leads To Better Care - Program created by state group now preventing injury in nursing homes nationwide
When the New York Association of Homes & Services for the Aging won a grant in 1996, the money went to develop a computer program intended to help prevent falls and bedsores.
Ten years later, the result of that work is a product being used at more than 400 nursing homes around the country. And the Albany-based association -- specifically,
its for-profit arm, NYAHSA Services Inc. -- finds itself trying to market a successful
computer product despite a background more experienced in lobbying and the nursing home trade.
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System Uses Quality Data to Improve Health Care
EQUIP for Quality draws national attention and is featured as innovative use
of Information Technology (IT) in this August 2005 issue of Government
Health IT. The article describes how EQUIP helps improve care delivery and
at the same time reduces care costs and liability premiums. August 29,
2005
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