The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Brief Summary of a Workshop

New stuff on efficiency and quality of health care. Timely.

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The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Brief Summary of a Workshop

Why digging up primary sources is important? « Synchronised Minds

Unfortunately, shortcuts have no place in good scholarly work.

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Why digging up primary sources is important? « Synchronised Minds

High-Deductible Health Plans and Better Benefit Design — Ann Intern Med

More on patient cost sharing and its impact on health care utilization.

High-Deductible Health Plans and Better Benefit Design — Ann Intern Med

JAMA -- The Cost-Coverage Trade-off: "It's Health Care Costs, Stupid", February 27, 2008, Emanuel 299 (8): 947

A perspective on patient cost sharing.

JAMA -- The Cost-Coverage Trade-off: "It's Health Care Costs, Stupid", February 27, 2008, Emanuel 299 (8): 947

Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care — NEJM

Update on iatrogenic harms/risk of seeking medical care.

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Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care — NEJM

How Health Insurance Design Affects Access To Care And Costs, By Income, In Eleven Countries -- Schoen et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0862 -- Health Affairs

a new cross country comparison - shades of TR Reid.


How Health Insurance Design Affects Access To Care And Costs, By Income, In Eleven Countries -- Schoen et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0862 -- Health Affairs

Complex Systems View of Educational Policy Research | Science/AAAS

I wonder how strong the parallels are between the educational system and the health care system?


Complex Systems View of Educational Policy Research | Science/AAAS

innovations.cms.gov

the new cms innovations center website.

innovations.cms.gov

Here come the healthcare apps - O'Reilly Radar

another new facet of medical care ripe for good health services research!


Here come the healthcare apps - O'Reilly Radar

The Epidemiology of Prescriptions Abandoned at the Pharmacy — Ann Intern Med

A pretty good bit of creative health services research I think.


The Epidemiology of Prescriptions Abandoned at the Pharmacy — Ann Intern Med

Other blogs on quality and P4P — db's Medical Rants

Interesting insights from Dr Centor about quality and primary care practice models. worth a look.


Other blogs on quality and P4P — db's Medical Rants

Aligning Forces for Quality Launches New Quality Improvement Programs - RWJF

New quality initiative underway


Aligning Forces for Quality Launches New Quality Improvement Programs - RWJF

Standing Up for Quality and Affordable Health Care - HealthCare Notes | Newsroom | HealthCare.gov

In case you were wondering what the HHS Secretary does with her time...


Standing Up for Quality and Affordable Health Care - HealthCare Notes | Newsroom | HealthCare.gov

Medical Loss Ratios - RWJF

New policy brief from the robert wood johnson folks

Medical Loss Ratios - RWJF

APHA Annual Meeting Blog: Get empowered all over again: Video of Jenkins, West is up!

I am told these presentations are incredible - worth checking out.

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APHA Annual Meeting Blog: Get empowered all over again: Video of Jenkins, West is up!

Pioneering Ideas: Time to Accelerate Innovation: Takeaways from this Year's mHealth Summit

some followup on the mobile health summit conference.

Pioneering Ideas: Time to Accelerate Innovation: Takeaways from this Year's mHealth Summit

The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty: Mr. Roger's (Medical Home) Neighborhood

It takes a village... Information about the concept of a medical neighborhood proposed by the american college of physicians.



The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty: Mr. Roger's (Medical Home) Neighborhood

Payment Reform and the Mission of Academic Medical Centers | Health Policy and Reform

more new stuff...

Payment Reform and the Mission of Academic Medical Centers | Health Policy and Reform

Geographic Variation in the Quality of Prescribing | Health Policy and Reform

new quality study.

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Geographic Variation in the Quality of Prescribing | Health Policy and Reform

Program Page | 2010 mHealth Summit

Conference happening right now on the future of mobile health!

Note availability of several live webcasts.

Lot's of business for health services research.

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Program Page | 2010 mHealth Summit

American College of Physicians

2 new reports regarding aspects of the patient-centered medical home.

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American College of Physicians

Cruel Calculus: Why Saving Premature Babies Is Better Business Than Helping Them Thrive -- Lantos 29 (11): 2114 -- Health Affairs

Interesting perspective on our medical care system.

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Cruel Calculus: Why Saving Premature Babies Is Better Business Than Helping Them Thrive -- Lantos 29 (11): 2114 -- Health Affairs

How Geisinger's Advanced Medical Home Model Argues The Case For Rapid-Cycle Innovation -- Steele et al. 29 (11): 2047 -- Health Affairs

Newly published article on one of the leaders in implementing medical homes.

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How Geisinger's Advanced Medical Home Model Argues The Case For Rapid-Cycle Innovation -- Steele et al. 29 (11): 2047 -- Health Affairs

The operations research approach to health services

Just-published paper with a different perspective on HSR:

 

OR in Healthcare: A European Perspective

Sally Brailsford^a and Jan Vissers^{b, ,}

^a School of Management, University of Southampton. Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
^b Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam NL, and School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven NL

Received 18 October 2009; 

accepted 16 October 2010. 

Available online 26 October 2010.

Abstract

The European Working Group “Operations Research Applied to Health Services” (ORAHS) is one of the domain specific EURO Working Groups organized by EURO - the European Association of Operational Research Societies. In this paper we report on the development of ORAHS as a platform for OR in health, and analyse the papers presented at meetings over the 35 years of its existence. We propose a two-way framework for analysis, where one dimension is the nine stages of the product life cycle: identifying consumer requirements, designing a new service to meet these requirements, forecasting demand for such a service, securing resources for it, allocating these resources, developing programs & plans to use these resources for delivering the service, establishing criteria for service delivery, managing the performance of the service, and finally, evaluating its performance. The other dimension is a three-level classification into broad application areas referring to processes at different levels in healthcare: patients & providers, units & hospitals, and regional & national. We use this framework to carry out a quantitative analysis of all the papers presented during the meetings of ORAHS since its inception in 1975. We then describe developments over this period in applying OR approaches and techniques to health care, and present an overview of the main application areas and challenges.

Keywords: OR in health services; review

New Health Partnerships - RWJF

An experience with patient activation in care of chronic disease


New Health Partnerships - RWJF

The County Health Rankings - RWJF

Another view on the impact of health services assessment as a positive force for change

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The County Health Rankings - RWJF

An Ecological Understanding of Evaluation Use - RWJF

Interesting perspective on HSR evaluative work

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An Ecological Understanding of Evaluation Use - RWJF

future_nursing_iom.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Followup on medical teams and the recent IOM future of Nursing recommendation.

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future_nursing_iom.pdf (application/pdf Object)