“The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced that an app called PRISM won the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge, a multi-phase competition to address the need for greater use of standardized patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data in clinical care and research.”
“The goal of the Step Up App Challenge was to develop a user-friendly app capable of collecting standardized PRO data in various ambulatory settings, including primary and specialty care. This effort is part of AHRQ’s support for HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s priority on increasing value in healthcare by empowering patients with data and information to help them take an active role in making decisions about their care.”
“PRO data include any information on the status of a patient’s health condition that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or other medical expert. These data can yield insights into health status, function, symptom burden, adherence, health behaviors, and quality of life.”
“The award-winning PRISM app was developed by a multidisciplinary team comprising experts from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and the Institute for Health Informatics, Fairview Health System/HealthEast Kidney Stone Institute and PerkHealth, a Minnesota-based startup mobile app development company…” Read the full press release here.
Source: New App Designed to Help Patients Report Health Outcomes Wins Top Prize from AHRQ – March 5, 2019. AHRQ.
