MedStar Health News

Virginia Tech has announced that its team will collaborate with the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare on a newly-awarded, multi-year Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance care by developing novel statistical methods to analyze unstructured text in patient safety event reports and to identify temporal trends and patterns in the data.

This October, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its Health Information Technology Research 2018 Year in Review, including overviews and outcomes of AHRQ-funded work awarded to MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) and led by the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare (Center).

Technology designed to enable early and accurate detection of lung nodules

The MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) is included in Becker's Hospital Review’s 2019 list of more than 40 hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs.

Congratulations to Raj Ratwani, PhD, director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and associate professor of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, for receiving the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Earl Alluisi Award for Early Career Achievement.

MedStar Health Research Institute has been awarded a contract from Pennsylvania's Patient Safety Authority, which will be supported by the MedStar Health Human Factors Center team.