The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, initiated comprehensive health reform for the healthcare sector of the United States. PPACA includes strategies to make the American healthcare sector more efficient and effective. PPACA's comparative effectiveness research initiative and the establishment of the Patie...

Title of Project: Preference Measurement for Multistate Health Profiles Principal Investigator and Team Members: • Julie A. Jacko, PhD, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology • Francois Sainfort, PhD, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology • Thitima Kongnakorn, PhD, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Inclusiv...

CONTACT: Marilies Bauer, MA IPF Institute for Pharmaeconomic Research Wolfengasse 4/7 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel +43-1-5132007-14 Fax +43-1-5132007-15 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ipf-ac.at Objectives Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects 358,267 individuals in Austria and exerts a substantial economic burden on patients, healthcare systems and society. The main objective of this study was to ana...

Computerisation of quality indicators for the English National Health Service currently relies primarily on queries and clinical coding, with little use of ontologies. We investigated attributes and relationships in a diverse set of over 200 healthcare quality indicators, categorising by clinical pathway, inclusion and exclusion criteria and Institute of Medicine purpose. Our results, some of w...

The methods for healthcare reform are strikingly underdeveloped, with much reliance on political power. A methodology that combined methods from sources such as clinical trials, experience-based wisdom, and improvement science could be among the aims of the upcoming work in the USA on comparative effectiveness and on the agenda of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the Centers f...

Chronic conditions are increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems throughout the world. In response to this challenge, the World Health Organization has joined with the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation to adapt the Chronic Care Model (CCM) from a global perspective. The resultant effort is the Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions (ICCC) framework which expands community...

Funding Dr. Alexander was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (RO1 HS0189960) and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (R01 HL 107345-0). Dr. Lambert was supported by grant number U18HS016973 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency ...

Intel Corporation developed a next-generation healthcare model aligned with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim Initiative1. The company engaged with Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) to implement the program, branded as Connected Care, for employees and dependents of Intel’s Rio Rancho, New Mexico, facility2. The two organizations established a custom integrated deli...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how hospital organizational and cultural factors associated with implementation of quality initiatives such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) 100,000 Lives Campaign differ among levels of healthcare staff. DESIGN Evaluation of a mixed qualitative and quantitative methodology ("trilogic evaluation model"). SETTING Six hospitals that joined t...