January 2022 | Volume 1
MOVING INTELLIGENT CHANGE FORWARD
INNOVATION DIGEST
It’s a new year and already some important and positive trends are emerging that should take your notice away from the daily COVID-19 news. Patient leadership and engagement in clinical trials and in economic evaluations is a "must have" and it’s good to see collective action accelerating. Regulators, research funders and publishers must establish the bar for meaningful action and documentation, and also watch for opportunists who market apps and other tech solutions without real investment in authentic patient outreach and involvement. There’s also lots of talk and momentum around measuring social costs to patients, families and caregivers, and embedding such elements in our view of care quality and equity. The path ahead on this issue is complex, but there are a growing number of organizations investing time and resources in this work. Transparency and sharing of learning, best practices and methods will both accelerate and ensure meaningful and sustainable change. Speaking of transparency, it’s about time that a major organization like National Academies focuses on a major roadblock to patient-centered health care: data sharing. The report highlights several case examples of positive change, but note that many of the initiatives remain closed (i.e. private) data repositories and most lack patient involvement and leadership in their conceptualization or governance. Transparent, common-good data sharing has to be the standard and patients have to be co-leaders of change. 
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Since early 2020, the dominating presence of the Covid-19 pandemic has redefined the future of health care in America. It has revealed five crucial priorities that together can make U.S. health care accessible, more affordable, and focused on keeping people healthy rather than simply treating them when they are sick.
Promoting Health Equity by Paying for Social Care
Two major reports from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in 2019 and 2021 have called for clinicians, health care systems, and society to foster health equity by integrating social care into health care delivery and partnering with communities to address social determinants of health.
Care Coordination Through Local Partnerships: A Needed Policy Paradigm
Care coordination is essential to improving a fragmented health care system. Value-based payment models such as accountable care organizations and bundled payments encourage providers to coordinate patient care across clinicians and care settings.
Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) 2022 Explanation and Elaboration: A Report of the ISPOR CHEERS II Good Practices Task Force
Economic evaluations of health interventions are comparative analyses of alternative courses of action in terms of their costs and consequences. They can provide useful information to policy makers, payers, health professionals, patients, and the public about choices that affect health and the use of resources.
Patient engagement: The true benchmark in clinical trials
Patient engagement and community outreach may be hot topics in today’s clinical trial landscape, but they aren’t new ideas. Researchers and patient advocacy groups have focused on including patients and volunteers in study design and data reporting for many years. What’s new is the vital role technology plays in engagement as decentralized clinical trials become more popular.
How two states are integrating social health data into their information exchanges
In Nebraska and Iowa, information on housing, transportation and other non-clinical needs is being exchanged electronically.
Doctors and health care organizations know the importance of social factors in determining patients’ health outcomes, but often are frustrated by their inability to securely exchange this information in electronic form and integrate it into a patient’s electronic health record.
Sharing Health Data: The Why, the Will, and the Way Forward
Health data has proven its centrality in guiding action to change the course of individual and population health, if properly stewarded and used. Consequently, we are obliged to use it to its fullest, most beneficent potential.

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