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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a task order against an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract entitled "NRC for Health IT:  Domain 2 - Health IT Technical Assistance, Content Development, Program Related Projects and Studies". The successful offeror of this task order award was Westat, Inc. This task order was awarded in the amount of $1,686,484.  The purpose of this task order is to support the development of data infrastructure that will accelerate comparative effectiveness research on the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population and to support efforts to prioritize prevention, treatment and chronic disease management interventions for this population through comparative effectiveness research. The goal of this task order is to use electronic clinical data from the Indian Health Service (IHS) national health information system (RPMS - Resource and Patient Management System) to enhance the capacity to electronically measure quality of care consistent with national HIT standards and conduct comparative effectiveness research that will identify care delivery models within the Indian/Tribal and Urban systems that result in improved health outcomes.