AHRQ FY 2015 Budget Details Activities, Effort Needed To Fulfill New Mission

AHRQ’s $440 million budget for FY 2015, released March 7, includes funding for research, data collection and dissemination of evidence and evidence-based tools. The budget, available on the AHRQ website, funds health services research that produces evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable and affordable. The budget builds on past successes, focusing on projects that have demonstrated impact, while also funding new activities. One new initiative will expand AHRQ’s advances in improving safety in hospitals through patient-safety activities to additional settings, beginning with primary care practices and nursing homes in FY 2015. Another new initiative involves funding investigator-initiated health economics research, with the goal of increasing the efficiency, effectiveness and value of the health care system.