DoC-IT Receives Nearly $3 Million Grant to Strengthen Age-Friendly Health Systems Research
We are delighted to share that the UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation has been awarded a nearly $3 million grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to strengthen the national research infrastructure for Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS). The three-year grant was among a new round of grants totaling $13.5 million approved by the JAHF Board of Trustees to advance the AFHS movement.
This award builds on a prior JAHF-funded grant through which DoC-IT established an AFHS Research Council and launched a national AFHS Research Network that now includes more than 700 members. The new project will expand on that foundation in three key areas: strengthening the broader AFHS research community, building shared data and measurement infrastructure, and developing consensus-based measures to guide and evaluate the AFHS movement nationally.
To strengthen the research community, the project will enhance the AFHS Research Council and Research Network, launch focused working groups, and establish a new AFHS AI and Innovation Hub. It will also build a shared data infrastructure through a national self-service AFHS Research Resources Core—housing curated datasets and standardized 4Ms measurement guidance—alongside a new partnership with the Veterans Health Administration to integrate national-scale 4Ms data into established VA research datasets. Finally, the project will lead national-scale research to generate evidence through a mixed-methods evaluation of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure and a stakeholder-engaged consensus process to prioritize outcome domains across the field.
Ultimately, the project team aims to produce actionable, high-quality evidence that health systems across the country can use to improve care for older adults.
“Our next phase is designed to meet the growing demand to understand the impact of investment in AFHS on outcomes that matter to older adults. We are so grateful to The John A. Hartford Foundation for entrusting our team with this critical work and look forward to partnering with many others on it.”
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Chief, UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT)
Principal Investigator
Please join us in congratulating the cross-institutional project team: Julia Adler-Milstein, Stephanie Rogers, Benjamin Rosner, Jarmin Yeh, James Harrison, Mike Steinman, Matthew Growdon, Sunny Lin (Washington University, St. Louis), Dori Cross (University of Minnesota), Robert Thombley, Grace Krueger, Aditi Sriram, Jade Christey, Paige Welikson, and Kiana Smith!
For more information about the JAHF grants, read the press release here.