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class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Health Care Innovations Exchange to speed the implementation of new and better ways of delivering health care. The Innovations Exchange supports the Agency's mission to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.</p> <p>The Innovations Exchange offers busy health professionals and researchers the opportunity to share, learn about, and ultimately adopt evidence-based innovations and tools suitable for a range of health care settings and populations. Its Web site has the following components:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Searchable Innovations:</strong> Profiles of successful and attempted service delivery and policy innovations describe the innovative activity, its impact, how the innovator developed and implemented it, and other useful information for deciding whether to adopt the innovation.</li> <li><strong>Searchable QualityTools:</strong> Practical tools can help assess, promote, and improve the quality of health care.</li> <li><strong>Articles and resources:</strong> Articles describe the process of innovation and adoption, as well as ways to enhance any organization's receptivity to innovative policies and approaches to care. Resources include expert commentaries, perspectives, reports, and adoption guides.</li> <li><strong>Networking opportunities:</strong> Interact with innovators and organizations that have adopted innovations to learn new approaches to delivering care and develop effective strategies and policies for changing care delivery. You can connect with innovators by posting comments or questions on specific innovations.</li> </ul> <p>In addition to the Web site, the Innovations Exchange supports three Learning Communities that are focused on priority topic areas in an effort to scale up and spread select clusters of innovations to improve care delivery. </p> <h2>How an Innovation Is Defined</h2> <p>The Innovations Exchange defines an innovation as the implementation of new or altered products, services, processes, systems, policies, organizational structures, or business models that aim to improve one or more domains of health care quality or reduce health care disparities. Innovation can mean different things to different people, depending on sector as well as organizational and other contextual factors. An activity or policy that is standard practice in one health care system or setting may be cutting-edge for another. The Innovations Exchange includes clinical and non-clinical activities and tools that vary in degree of novelty, effects on quality or disparities, and level of supporting evidence.</p> <p>To learn about inclusion criteria and how to submit an innovation, go to <a href="/web/20141006085039/https://innovations.ahrq.gov/about-us/submission-guidelines">Submit an Innovation</a>.</p> <h2>Who Uses the Health Care Innovations Exchange?</h2> <p>A diverse group of individuals uses the Innovations Exchange, ranging from nurses and health administrators to policymakers and researchers.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/web/20141006085039im_/https://innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/piechart_users042014_1.png" style="height:623px; width:911px"/></p> <h2>Web Site Awards</h2> <p><img alt="" src="/web/20141006085039im_/https://innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/Interactive-Media-Award-2012.jpg" style="height:71px; width:123px;float:right;"/> The Innovations Exchange Web site received a 2012 Interactive Media Award for Outstanding Achievement in the category of Healthcare. The Interactive Media Awards competition recognizes the highest standards of excellence in Web site design and development.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/web/20141006085039im_/https://innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/Standard-of-Excellence-WebAward-2012.jpg" style="height:68px; width:123px;float:right;"/> In 2012 the site won a <strong>Health Care Standard of Excellence WebAward</strong> for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development from the Web Marketing Association. The WebAward competition names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all Web site development.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/web/20141006085039im_/https://innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/eHealthcare-Leadership-Award-2012.jpg" style="height:66px; width:123px;float:right;"/> The Web site was also recognized with a 2012 <strong>eHealthcare Leadership Award</strong> for Best Health/Healthcare Content from Strategic Health Care Communications. 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