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For what it's worth: Understanding value in healthcare
Since its inception, IHPI has emphasized understanding and promoting value in healthcare as one of our four priority themes. How can healthcare be delivered in a way that maximizes quality, appropriateness, and efficiency and brings the greatest value to patients and communities? How can people can have the best possible outcomes over time while keeping costs in check?
One of our newest initiatives, the
Michigan Medicine/IHPI Program on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE) is dedicated to identifying, implementing, and evaluating ways to improve quality and demonstrate the value of care
---- starting within with our own health system, Michigan Medicine.
MPrOVE, led by
Eve Kerr,
Scott Flanders, and
Anne Sales, leverages U-M's considerable expertise across health services research, management, quality improvement, and healthcare design. The initiative promotes optimal care by improving the appropriateness of clinical services, concentrating on common and costly areas of both underuse and overuse.
MPrOVE is engaged in rigorously and rapidly evaluating projects for effectiveness, and will work to disseminate the most promising interventions for promoting the delivery of high-value health services. MPrOVE also aims to promote collaborative research projects that can contribute to state and national policy around quality and value.
On September 27 in the NCRC Dining Room, MPrOVE is hosting its first-ever
Research Innovation Challenge to encourage the development of interdisciplinary research projects focused on value optimization, and to support the submission of collaborative grant proposals for external funding. We look forward to the results of this exciting summit.
Many of our members are also engaged with the
Michigan Value Collaborative, a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan/Blue Care Network-funded collaborative quality improvement program, which aims to help Michigan hospitals achieve their best possible patient outcomes at the lowest reasonable cost.
Over the past decade, the U-M
Center on Value-Based Insurance Design has achieved substantial progress promoting federal and state policies to better align patients' cost-sharing with the value of health care services across a wide range of public and private insurance plans.
Through all of these efforts and more, IHPI and its partners are working to enhance the value of healthcare, by achieving measurable and sustainable improvements in our healthcare delivery system.
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
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Many middle-aged adults report dental pain, embarrassment and poor prevention
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The dental health of middle-aged Americans faces a lot of problems right now, and an uncertain future to come, according to new results from the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging.
One in three Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 say they're embarrassed by the condition of their teeth. A slightly larger percentage say dental problems have caused pain, difficulty with eating, missed work or other health problems in the past two years.
The new results from a survey of Americans over age 50 suggest that even those who were diligent about seeing the dentist and had dental insurance throughout adulthood may find it harder to afford dental care as they get older and coverage options may be more limited.
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MOOC fall-term course: Registration now open
The fall 2017 program for students from all University of Michigan schools and colleges begins on begins on Monday October 9, 2017 and runs through Friday, November 17, 2017. Students can participate in the course as either an open learner or for 1 credit through SPH 626.
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Heisler wins Medical School Dean's Award
Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., professor of internal medicine, was selected to receive the 2017 Clinical and Health Services Research Award from the Dean's awards program.
The award recognizes outstanding contributions made to the Medical School in clinical or health services research. Heisler will be honored at the annual Dean's Awards Dinner on November 14.
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Abir and Nallamothu awarded R01 to study pre-hospital outcomes for cardiac arrest
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a common, life-threatening event that is associated with poor patient outcomes.
An integrative systems approach that examines the interaction of EMS agencies with other important stakeholders who provide care before and after EMS arrives
---- such as first-responders (e.g., police, fire) and hospitals
---- has not been undertaken. A better understanding and dissemination of strategies to improve care processes employed by high-performing EMS agencies across the continuum of OHCA care is a critical yet unfulfilled step for improving outcomes.
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Brummett and Waljee awarded R01 for mixed-methods opioid study
Chad Brummett, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, and
Jennifer Waljee, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., associate professor of plastic surgery, were recently awarded an R01 to study the identifying factors that lead to new opioid dependence among opioid naïve surgical patients.
The mixed methods study will examine patient factors associated with postoperative pain and opioid consumption among a cohort of patients undergoing five common, elective, abdominal procedures. Findings from the multifaceted, population-based study will inform patients and providers regarding the risk of opioid dependence following surgery, and will establish a patient-centered data infrastructure that yields continuous feedback to providers regarding appropriate opioid prescribing practices.
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Wiens named to national innovator list
Jenna Wiens, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, was named to
MIT Technology Review's 2017 list of 35 Innovators Under 35.
The national magazine recognized her as a pioneer in her field, developing fresh and unexpected solutions, specifically in using computational models to identify patients who are most at risk of a deadly infection.
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NEW: Grant Development Resources on the IHPI Website
To help IHPI members create successful grant proposals and identify potential funding opportunities, IHPI is compiling a collection of grant development resources that members can access through
IHPI's Internal website (U-M unique name and Level 1 password required).
As we build these resources, we welcome member input as to the types of information that would be most useful. Currently available documents include: an up-to-date "grant boilerplate" description of IHPI, and an "IHPI Facilities and Other Resources" summary (
click here to review these documents). Other potential categories of information that will be piloted in the coming months include: descriptions of NIH award categories, resources for identifying funding opportunities, proposal development guidance for specific proposal sections/components, and sample proposals. If you have suggestions, or grant-related materials you would like to share, please contact
Wendy Lombard.
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- Jenna Goesling, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Anesthesiology,
Medical School
- Geoffrey Hoffman, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor, School of Nursing
- Jihyoun Jeon, Ph.D., M.S., assistant research scientist, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Keith Naylor, M.D., clinical lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School
- Archana Radhakrishnan, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School
- Shawna Smith, Ph.D., M.Phil., research assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical School
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Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Medical School
My goal is to help all people live their lives to the fullest; optimal health is vital to reaching that goal. Adequate health care allows people to do what they would like to do and what they need to do for themselves, their families and their communities.
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Date: Thursday, September 28, 2017
(Note new date and time for this series)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speakers:
Preeti Malani, M.D., M.S.J., M.S., professor of internal medicine, Medical School, Paul Anderson, senior vice president, Integrated Communications & Marketing, AARP, and Alison Bryant, Ph.D., senior vice president for Research, AARP
Reception: A reception will follow the presentation, from 5:00 p.m.
--- 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium Lobby
---- all are welcome.
WEBSITE
This seminar is an opportunity for IHPI members and others to learn about
a new poll that IHPI launched in spring 2017, with support from AARP and Michigan Medicine. The presentation will include the poll's latest findings about sleep, dental health and prescription drug use among older Americans. It will also provide an overview of the poll's methodology, dissemination and ramifications, and describe opportunities for IHPI members to inform future questions and use poll data in their research.
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U-M Injury Center to host 2017 Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) conference
Date: September 18
--- 20, 2017
Location: Michigan League
WEBSITE
SAVIR is a professional organization that provides leadership and fosters excellence in the science of violence and injury prevention. The 2017 conference will be devoted to the theme of innovations in preventing injury and violence.
Who should attend: Researchers, medical and public health practitioners, policymakers, students, early professionals, research staff, and other stakeholders. The agenda will appeal to all sectors and professional levels of injury and violence prevention research and practice.
What to expect: This three-day conference (including pre-conference workshops) will cover topics including the opioid epidemic, youth violence, transportation safety, older adult falls, and much more. Plenary sessions, workshops, symposia, flash science, and poster presentations...all will be designed to provide an invigorating learning experience.
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How to Find Funding for Your Research
Date: September 20, 2017
Location:
North Campus Research Complex, Building 16, B003E
Time: 12:00 p.m.
--- 1:00 p.m.
Interested in staying on top of federal and foundation funding opportunities? This workshop will show you how to efficiently search funding databases and set up weekly alerts.
Please bring your laptop for the hands-on portions of the class.
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Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal
Date: September 29, 2017
Time: 9:30 a.m.
--- 12:00 p.m.
Location: Vandenberg Room, Michigan League
This workshop will discuss strategies for developing a persuasive grant proposal that is responsive to sponsor priorities. Focusing on proposals that are driven by a hypothesis and/or research question, this workshop will offer an overview of crucial pre-proposal preparation, from assessing readiness, to analyzing funders, to understanding the review process. During the second half of the program, we will look at proposal components, structure, writing style and common errors.
Host: Fiona Lee, LSA Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Professional Development
Presenter: Dr. Jill Jividen, Asst. Director for Research Development, University of Michigan Medical School, Office of Research
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Medication take-back event: Spread the word!
Date: September 30, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m.
--- 2:00 p.m.
Location: Pioneer High School Parking Lot, 601 W Stadium Blvd (Main Street entrance)
The
Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan-OPEN) is partnering with hospitals, community organizations, and police departments around the state to host a medication take-back event in several locations on Saturday, September 30. The Washtenaw County event in Ann Arbor is made possible by Michigan Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology and the Ann Arbor Police Department. These events give people the opportunity to dispose of unused, unwanted, or expired medications safely and without cost. Watch for announcements of other take-back locations throughout the state.
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Making the Most of Your Presentation
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Date: October 9, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
In this talk, Dr. Doumonth proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver an oral presentation: he covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as stage fright.
Doumonth is an engineer from the Louvain School of Engineering and received his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University. He now devotes his time and energy to training engineers, scientists, business people, and other rational minds in effective communication, pedagogy, statistical thinking, and related themes.
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5th Annual Symposiumon Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety
Date: November 6, 2017
Time: 5:00 p.m.
--- 7:30 p.m.
Location: 3rd and 4th Floors, Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center, 1221 Beal Ave
Join the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) and learn how they are helping to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery by identifying, fostering, and promoting collaborative projects across the University.
Come enjoy refreshments, networking with colleagues and potential collaborators, posters and mini-presentations on cutting-edge healthcare research, and the opportunity to learn about current activities at CHEPS. For questions, please email
[email protected].
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Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems Symposium
Date: November 15, 2017
Time: 8:00 a.m.
--- 4:00 p.m.
Location: Palmer Commons
This year's events focus on the ELSI of data and knowledge sharing. Speakers currently scheduled include John Wilbanks, Elizabeth Pike, Kenneth Goodman, Debra Matthews, Peter Embi and Joon-Ho Yu with more to come.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Abstracts for a poster session, focusing on ELSI or technical aspects of data and knowledge sharing in learning health systems, will be accepted through Oct. 1, 2017.
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10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Date: December 4
--- 6, 2017
The Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I), co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth will take place in Arlington, VA. This year's theme, A Decade of Progress and the Path Forward, will reflect on the accomplishments of and challenges to the field, and will focus on opportunities ahead.
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MLibrary @NCRC
Interested in learning more?
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Wolverine Express: Your opportunity to promote higher education for high-schoolers across the State of Michigan
Wolverine Express takes faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the University of Michigan to under-resourced high schools across the state to promote higher education through sharing their stories of aspiration, education, and career experiences.
School visits generally require a half day commitment depending on travel conditions and location. The U-M Center for Educational Outreach provides templates and resources for classroom presentations prior to visits. On the morning of each visit, participants receive detailed itineraries and an orientation.
CEO is currently finalizing plans for high school visits for this year, which includes:
- September 27, 2017---- Southwestern Classical Academy, Flint
- October 18, 2017---- Holland High School, Holland
- November 2017---- Lansing Sexton High School (Date to be determined)
- January 2018---- Monroe High School (Date to be determined)
- February 2018---- Chandler Park High School (Date to be determined)
- March 2018---- Detroit Edison Academy (Date to be determined)
For more information about Wolverine Express please contact: Sheri Samaha at (734) 615-5241 or
[email protected].
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U-M Medical School Global Health Research Certificate Program
Deadline: October 15, 2017
In an effort to expand U-M's global health network,
Global REACH is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Health Research Certificate Program.
Tailored to advanced trainees or faculty (junior- or senior-level), this two-year program will enable scholars to better incorporate aspects of global health into their research portfolios and create potential pathways to extramural competitive funding. Through a combination of mentorship, monthly seminar events, and a fieldwork capstone project in an international setting, participants will gain the experience and expertise to extend their research interests into the global arena.
Applicants should send a short letter describing their interest along with a current CV, and documentation confirming that financial support for the field experience has been secured to program manager
Liz Kaselitz by Oct. 15, 2017.
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2018 CHRT Policy Fellowship: Applications due October 16
University of Michigan researchers can now apply for the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) Policy Fellowship at U-M.
The fellowship joins selected health services researchers and state policy-makers over four months to learn from health care experts and each other about policy-making, health services research, and the intersection between the two. Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. Friday, October 16.
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2018 IHPI R01 Boot Camp: Application available---- apply by
October 23
IHPI is once again sponsoring an R01 Boot Camp program in conjunction with the Medical School's
Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp. The IHPI Boot Camp will accommodate 8
--- 10 early career faculty and will be open to all assistant professors who are IHPI members, regardless of the school or college in which they are appointed.
(NOTE: IHPI junior faculty with appointments in the Medical School may choose to apply to either the Medical School or IHPI Boot Camp based on their primary research interests. For those who wish to apply to the Medical School Boot Camp, that application and program details are available
here.)
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IHPI and MICHR team up to help early career faculty with K-award writing workshops
Date: November 14, 28, and December 12
Time:: 5:30 p.m.
--- 8:00 p.m.
Registration is now open, and space is limited! Register by October 20 (required)
WEBSITE
This structured, three-part workshop is designed to assist early career faculty and fellows who are preparing competitive career development grant applications (NIH K and VA CDA) for a 2017 submission. As a participant, you will exchange drafts of sections of your proposal and receive peer critique and feedback from senior faculty experienced in NIH study section thinking. IHPI faculty will lead health services-focused breakout sessions. Space is limited, please sign up by October 20.
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Health care after Harvey
Mahshid Abir, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of emergency medicine, recently highlighted the challenges to the health of affected communities and the healthcare systems in Texas after Hurricane Harvey in an op-ed for
U.S. News and World Reports.
"Lessons learned during the earlier disasters could be valuable to relief efforts as the flood waters recede across Texas and Louisiana," Abir writes. "Among the key takeaways from Katrina and Sandy: expect significant health care needs from individuals with chronic diseases, including mental health, and anticipate increased demand for acute care resources in regional emergency departments and hospitals."
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Older victims of Hurricane Harvey may need special attention as Texas recovers
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In a piece for The Conversation,
Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., M.S.N., associate professor of nursing, brings attention to answering pressing questions about the health of older adults after events such as Hurricane Harvey. She notes, "Increased hospital admissions after disasters are only part of the story. The aging U.S. population has a rising incidence of chronic diseases requiring consistent health care, such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity."
She also said disruptions in regular care after a disaster can worsen existing chronic conditions, leading to hospitalizations. These immediate disruptions from the disaster can have much longer-lasting impacts on health.
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A safer way to legalize marijuana
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As several states continue the debate over legalizing marijuana for recreational use, three University of Michigan researchers urge policymakers to take lessons learned from the dangers of cigarette smoking into account and consider legalizing only noncombustible forms of the drug.
In an article in
Health Affairs, IHPI members
Rebecca Haffajee, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of health management and policy, and
Ken Warner, Ph.D., M.Phil., professor of health management and policy, argue that lawmakers should limit marijuana use to forms that are not smoked because of the evidence tobacco research has shown when combustible products are used.
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New Faculty Orientation to Corporate & Foundation Relations
Date: October 9, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: Danto Auditorium, U-M Cardiovascular Center
The Michigan Medicine Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations encourages any faculty member who has been at Michigan for less than three years to attend this program, which will emphasize foundation grants, and will include a faculty panel describing the impact that foundation awards had on their early career and offering advice for prospective applicants to prestigious foundations supporting early career researchers.
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Up to $220K Available for Research Strategies to Prevent and Alleviate Poverty
Deadline: November 13, 2017
Poverty Solutions is pleased to announce its second round of grant funding to support action-based research focused on preventing and alleviating poverty. Up to $220,000 is available through two funding mechanisms: community-academic partnership and faculty project development.
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ABOUT IHPI
The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is committed to improving the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of healthcare services
To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:
- Evaluating the impact of healthcare reforms
- Improving the health of communities
- Promoting greater value in healthcare
- Innovating in IT and healthcare delivery
SUPPORT IHPI
If you are interested in supporting health services and health policy research at the University of Michigan,
click here.
Inside IHPI is published monthly by the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation.
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CONTACT US
U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Eileen Kostanecki
IHPI Government & External Relations Director
[email protected]
202-554-0578
Kara Gavin
IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
Lauren Hutchens
IHPI Communications Specialist
Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Coordinator
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