Automating Quality to Speed Improvements in Care
Official title: Automating Quality to Accelerate Transformational Improvements in Care (AQUATIC)
Funded at Clairyon, INC. · NIH-11453739 · Data updated 2026-11-12
AQUATIC tests an AI-powered tool that automatically measures and reports healthcare quality in real time to help hospitals improve care faster.
Quick facts
| Grant type | Sbir 2 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Clairyon, INC. NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (San Diego, United States) |
| Project start | September 1, 2025 |
| Project end | July 31, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $1,143,788 |
| NIH project number | 4R44LM014847-02 |
| Project ID | NIH-11453739 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Patients whose care is captured in participating hospitals and who are involved in the hospital's quality reporting processes.
✕Less likely to help
Patients treated in settings outside participating health systems or not connected to the QA reporting workflows may not experience direct benefits.
What this research studies
This grant supports using an AI-driven system, QuaLLM, to extract and report quality measures from electronic health records in near real-time. By leveraging FHIR data exchange and large language models, it aims to replace slow, manual reporting with faster, automated insights. The project will validate QuaLLM against real CMS-quality reports in a large academic health system and adapt the model to new quality measures.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, clinicians and administrators could identify and fix care gaps more quickly, potentially improving patient outcomes.
How similar studies have gone: Preliminary work shows AI-assisted quality reporting can reduce time and cost; this project extends real-time automation to CMS-quality measures.
Where this research is happening
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Clairyon, INC.
San Diego, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Mccurdy, Michael T. — Clairyon, INC.
- Study coordinator: Mccurdy, Michael T.
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.