Introducing the AcademyHealth and Healthcare: Journal of delivery science and innovation partnership
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Amol S. Navathe, Sachin H. Jain, Lisa Simpson, Lucy Savitz (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - May 30, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Incorporating patient input into the design of a disease management program for COPD
Publication date: Available online 27 May 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Ranjani K. Paradise, Eileen Dryden, David Elvin, Carolyn Fisher, Sharon Touw, Lisa Trumble, Maren BataldenAbstractIn the era of value-based payment contracts, there is increasing emphasis on disease management as a strategy for improving care quality and reducing costs. To design effective disease management programs, healthcare systems should understand the day-to-day experience of living with particular health conditions, and ensure that evidence-based services and interventions are adapted to align with the realities of patients' lives and their ...
Source: Healthcare - May 28, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
PaTH to partnership in stakeholder-engaged research: A framework for stakeholder engagement in the PaTH to Health Diabetes study
Publication date: Available online 14 May 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Jennifer M. Poger, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Cindy L. Bryce, Jennifer K. Carroll, Lan Kong, Erica B. Francis, Jennifer L. KraschnewskiAbstractEngaging a diverse stakeholder group, including patients, clinicians, policy makers, and leadership from national professional organizations as partners in research supports the pursuit of patient-centered outcomes.Utilizing the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Engagement Principles and applying adult learning theories to training opportunities can enhance stakeholder-investigator collaborations.Regularly sched...
Source: Healthcare - May 16, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Use of a medication-based risk adjustment index to predict mortality among veterans dually-enrolled in VA and medicare
ConclusionsThe RxRisk-VM index exhibited a high level of, but slightly less, accuracy in predicting mortality in comparison to claims-based risk indices.ImplicationsIts application may enhance the accuracy of studies examining VA and non-VA care and enable risk adjustment when diagnostic claims are not available or biased.Level of evidenceLevel 3. (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - April 26, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Uncovering differences in interoperability across hospital size
ConclusionsThe lack of participation in multiple networks and the number of functionalities in EHRs among small hospitals are key factors that explain the difference in interoperability between small and large hospitals. Policies that incentivize these activities or simplify electronic exchange could reduce gaps in interoperability among hospitals of different sizes. (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - April 17, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Medicare's new voluntary bundled payment program: Episode selection and participant characteristics
Publication date: Available online 13 April 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Joshua M. Liao, Joseph R. Martinez, Eric Z. Shan, Jack J. Huang, Claire T. Dinh, Erin Q. Huang, Amol S. Navathe (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - April 14, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery - Association of Rural Surgeons of India Karad Consensus Statement on Surgical System Strengthening in Rural India
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): On behalf of the Association of Rural Surgeons of India – Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Consensus Committee (ARSI-LCoGS Consensus Committee)AbstractIn India, 90% of the rural population is estimated to lack access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care. Surgical care in these settings is often characterized by limited resources. Provision of rural surgical care often requires novel approaches as compared to those in higher income urban sectors, specifically in areas of infrastructure, workforce, and blood. This consensus statement...
Source: Healthcare - April 6, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Interview with Brad Smith, CEO of Aspire Health
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Jordan Anderson MD, Brad Smith (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - March 28, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
New Mother Number 14
Publication date: Available online 6 March 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Aroonsiri Sangarlangkarn (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - March 8, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Time-driven activity-based costing to model the utility of parallel induction redesign in high-turnover operating lists
ConclusionsParallel induction design reduces non-operative time at minimal increase in personnel costs for all-day, high turnover surgery. An additional short duration surgical case is likely feasible under this model and represents a value investment with minimal requirement for additional personnel resources.ImplicationsA parallel induction design, within the constraints of finite healthcare funding, may help alleviate some of the global increase in demand for surgical capacity that accompanies an expanding and aging population. (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - February 13, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
How middle managers facilitate interdisciplinary primary care team functioning
ConclusionWithin a multilevel system, frontline interdisciplinary staff continue to perceive the need for leadership by middle managers from their own professional disciplines for solving interdisciplinary problems, setting role-specific schedules and expectations, and fostering innovation. As such, greater focus on the structure and training of middle managers for participation in PCMH models is needed. (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - February 12, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Planning together: Patient-centered care planning to improve health outcomes
Publication date: Available online 11 February 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Miriam C. Tepper, Ekta Taneja, Kristin M. KingAbstract•Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) experience significant health disparities and die much younger than the general population. Interventions to address this disparity have targeted nutrition, physical fitness, and smoking cessation, but have not yet resulted in significant improvements in health outcomes for this population.•The patient-centered care plan, used by providers and patients during outpatient visits, is a potential tool for engaging patients in their own care. We ...
Source: Healthcare - February 12, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Measuring individual physician clinical productivity in an era of consolidated group practices
ConclusionsMixed-effects modeling accounts for significant variation in productivity secondary to shared practice resources, outperforms GEE in predictive power, and is less vulnerable to outliers than DEA.ImplicationsWith mixed-effects regression analysis using otherwise easily accessible administrative data, practices can evaluate physician clinical productivity more fairly and make more informed management decisions on physician compensation and resource allocation. (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - February 8, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Consensus statement on surgical system strengthening in rural india
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Association of Rural Surgeons of India - Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (ARSI-LCoGS) Consensus CommitteeAbstractIn India, 90% of the rural population is estimated to lack access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care. Surgical care in these settings is often characterized by limited resources. Provision of rural surgical care often requires novel approaches as compared to those in higher income urban sectors, specifically in areas of infrastructure, workforce, and blood. This consensus statement draws upon the wealth of experience he...
Source: Healthcare - January 30, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
Investigating consumer hospital choice: Demand and supply-side levers could address health care costs
Conclusions and implicationsOur findings provide guidance for identifying promising policy levers that most influence consumer choice of provider. However, the extent to which potential levers can influence choice is likely to be dependent upon the kind of care being sought. (Source: Healthcare)
Source: Healthcare - January 12, 2019 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research
