Attachment I -- Study Announcement

Barriers to Meaningful Use in Medicaid

Study Announcement

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is looking for (FILL IN SPECIFIC TYPE OF LICENSURE) in (FILL IN THE LOCATION) to participate in important focus group research. We are planning to hold the group sessions sometime between July and September 2011. This study will help inform Federal policy related to the Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive program. Both users and non users of EHR systems are needed. We are offering each participant a $200 gift for participating in a 90-120 minute focus group session. We are seeking clinicians who work in the outpatient setting (private practice or Federally-Qualified Health Center), and whose patient population is 30% or more Medicaid.

If you qualify, you may be able to participate in a focus group either in-person or via a conference call. Other health care professionals in the groups may include physicians, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dentists. Your responses will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law, including AHRQ’s confidentiality statute, 42 USC 299c-3(c). This study is sponsored by AHRQ and is being conducted by RTI International, a leading non-profit health care research organization. To learn more about our study and to see if you qualify, call (800) 334-8571, ext. 2-5265.