Authors


Jean Adams, RN, ACIO

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Enhancing Patient and Family Engagement Through Meaningful Use Stage 3: Opportunities and Barriers to Implementation

Two leading US health systems attempted to implement 4 draft objectives for Meaningful Use Stage 3 within their health IT infrastructure to provide feedback on needed enhancements to the policy.


Eduardas Valaitis, PhD

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Wait Times, Patient Satisfaction Scores, and the Perception of Care

Clinic wait times do not just affect overall patient satisfaction, but also specifically affect the perception of providers and the quality of care.


Gregory Engel, MD

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Early Clinical Experience With Networked System for Promoting Patient Self-Management

A networked system designed to promote patient self-management appears to be safe and effective in capturing, integrating, and presenting medication adherence and physiologic information.




Darrell George, BA

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The Drug Price Iceberg: More Than Meets the Eye

When it comes to the political iceberg of drug prices, there is more than meets the eye. Policies that reduce prices but do not lower consumers’ out-of-pocket costs will not address the main challenge facing most Americans.


Anthony M. Buendia, BA

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Option Pricing: A Flexible Tool to Disseminate Shared Savings Contracts

By pricing options that protect providers from downside risk,health plans can more clearly evaluate different shared savings contracts and expand them to smaller providers.




Raina M. Merchant, MD, MS

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Twitter Accounts Followed by Congressional Health Staff

Disseminating timely and relevant research findings to policy makers is a national priority to inform health policy decisions. Social media is a novel tool to bridge the communication gap.


Anita Cattrell, PhD

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Effective Care Management by Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations

A complex care management program implemented at 5 Next Generation accountable care organizations reduced all-cause inpatient admissions and total medical expenditures for participating beneficiaries.


Dan Klein, President

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Rising Out-of-Pocket Costs Threaten an Already Vulnerable Population: An Introduction to the PAN Foundation and AJMC® Collaborative Supplement

This supplement showcases the winning papers from the PAN Challenge, which aimed to foster conversations about how to rein in out-of-pocket costs to eliminate barriers between patients and their critical medical treatments.


Michael Von Korff, ScD

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Population Targeting and Durability of Multimorbidity Collaborative Care Management

Benefits of a patient-centered multimorbidity care management program occurred early, and were evident only among patients with depression and unfavorable medical control of diabetes and heart disease.



Ginger Smith Carls, PhD

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Cost Burden of Treatment Resistance in Patients With Depression

When a clinical staging algorithm for treatment-resistant depression was applied to administrative claims data, higher scores predicted higher future medical costs.


Newt Gingrich, PhD, MA

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A Health Plan Prescription for Health Information Technology

Using their own technology, health plans can provide valuable data and capabilities to move adoption of health information technology systems forward.




Fargol Mostofian, BHSc

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Changing Physician Behavior: What Works?

The authors evaluate methods for implementing clinical research and guidelines, in order to change physician practice patterns, in surgical and general practice.









Ra

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Telemonitoring With Case Management for Seniors With Heart Failure

An Internet-based telehealth intervention for elderly heart failure patients found no discernible incremental impact on morbidity or mortality compared with case management alone.


Ann M. Geiger, MPH, PhD

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Enhancing Healthcare Delivery Research at the National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences created the Healthcare Delivery Research Program in January 2015, recognizing the need for empirical evidence to address cancer care challenges.


Donna J. Keyser, PhD, MBA

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Delivering on the Value Proposition of Precision Medicine: The View From Healthcare Payers

Genomics-based precision medicine has the potential to transform healthcare delivery. However, effective collaborations among scientists, clinicians, and payers are needed to accelerate the translation of precision medicine to clinical practice and ensure its sustainability.


Joseph A. O'Neil, Jr, BS

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Pilot of Decision Support to Individualize Colorectal Cancer Screening Recommendations

Colorectal cancer screening involves balancing immediate harms with longer-term benefits; electronic medical record decision support may facilitate personalized benefit/harm assessment.

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