Grant Supports Health Services Research Through Meetings, Improved Databases
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
AcademyHealth undertook a range of activities from July 2003 through July 2005 to strengthen the field of health services research.
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How Do Physicians Rate High-Tech Medicine?
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., expanded his earlier research by focusing on the allocation of health care resources and the effect on health outcomes, with an emphasis on the over-65 population.
Low-Cost Equipment to Help Elderly People with Daily Tasks is of Some Benefit
March 30, 2004 | Program Result
The University of Massachusetts at Boston's Gerontology Institute conducted a research and demonstration project to encourage the use of low-cost adaptive equipment among older adult home care clients.
Conference Explores how Medical Innovations are Adopted
July 1, 2004 | Program Result
The National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation and the National Committee for Quality Health Care convened a conference to explore ways to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based innovations into medical practice.
How Does Managed Care Influence New Medical Technology?
January 1, 1999 | Program Result
Researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., conducted studies to learn how public and private strategies to contain health care costs have affected the development of new medical technologies, including equipment and pharmaceuticals.
Study Shows Physician Profiling Software Can Rank the Cost-Effectiveness of Some Specialties
December 15, 2007 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine examined the feasibility of using physician profiling software systems to rank physician specialists by their "cost efficiency".
Medical Technology Usually Equals Better Outcomes, Higher Costs
October 1, 1998 | Program Result
The National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., an independent, nonprofit economic research organization, undertook research into a variety of health care cost-containment issues between September 1995 and May 1997.
Advancing the Role of Rapid Learning in Mainstream Health Care
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.
A Digital Guide for Self-Tracking Goes Online
August 22, 2012 | Program Result
Project builds online self-tracking guide to advance health and research potential of observations of daily living.
Analysis of Cost Control of New Medical Technology
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
Alan B. Cohen, Sc.D., at the Boston University School of Management, examined the relative effectiveness of various cost-containment strategies in controlling the adoption and use of costly medical technology.