Juliana O. Tillema, MPA
Articles
A Strategy to Promote Population-Wide Life Satisfaction While Advancing Equity
The authors used health care claims and survey data to identify a strategy that might promote life satisfaction while advancing equity in an insured population.
The Health and Well-being of an ACO Population
Among HealthPartners plan members, musculoskeletal, psychosocial, and neurologic conditions create the greatest burden to current health; diet offers the greatest opportunity to improve future health scores; and 42% report a high level of well-being.
Validating a Method to Assess Disease Burden From Insurance Claims
When we weighted health insurance claims with a disease burden score, we were able to generate valid estimates of disability-adjusted life-years.
The Financial Impact of Team-Based Care on Primary Care
Although team-based care improved cardiovascular disease risk factors, it had a negative financial impact on a primary care practice.
It Is Time to Ask Patients What Outcomes Are Important to Them
Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.
Patient Experience and Physician/Staff Satisfaction in Transforming Medical Homes
Becoming a medical home appears to increase physician and staff job satisfaction, but it also risks decreasing patient satisfaction with access to care.
