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CHRT is growing: Join us in welcoming new staff
Several new staff members have joined the Center for Health and Research Transformation. They bring expertise in pay for success financing, evaluating case management interventions for superutilizers, recovery-oriented communities, integrative approaches to health disparities, program evaluation and improvements, and more. Please join us in welcoming them to the team. Ryan Bartholomew is an analyst at CHRT. He manages CHRT’s Health …
Read more >Cover Michigan 2018: Health Care Benefit Use Variation by Demographics
Data from the Center for Health and Research Transformation’s (CHRT) 2018 Cover Michigan Survey Report, “Use of Health Care Benefits in Michigan,” show which health benefits Michiganders with health insurance coverage have used in the past year and how benefit use varies by age, race, gender, and economic status. For more detail on the 2018 health care use analysis, review “Health …
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Nine lessons for the leaders of health and human services integration initiatives (and for the grantmakers that want them to succeed)
In Health Affairs’ GrantWatch column, Marianne Udow-Phillips, Kathryne O’Grady, and Phyllis Meadows share Nine lessons for the leaders of health and human services integration initiatives (and for the grantmakers that want them to succeed). “Collectively addressing the environmental and social factors that influence health, a process known as health and human services integration, is not a new concept in the …
Read more >Rising Deductibles and the Underinsured
Co-authors Leah Corneail, Health Policy Analyst and CHRT Policy Fellowship Program Manager Josh Fangmeier, Senior Health Policy Analyst November 1st of this year marked the beginning of the Affordable Care Act’s third marketplace open enrollment period. As consumers, health plans, and exchanges prepared for open enrollment, much of the current health policy debate shifted from reducing the number of uninsured …
Read more >Consider the Conversation 2 Film and Panel
Download the flyer! Event: Consider the Conversation 2 Film and Panel When: Tuesday, Nov. 17th Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm Doors open at 5:00pm with an hors d’oeuvres reception Where: Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor This event is free and open to the public. Registration not required, but encouraged (see below) The Washtenaw Health Initiative (WHI) will bring together …
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No Matter Where
CHRT, in partnership with six co-sponsors, presents a pair of events examining the value of health information exchanges. On June 29, 2015 at the Michigan Theater, CHRT co-presents a free screening of the documentary, No Matter Where. In the 76-minute documentary, filmmaker Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, examines the concept of health information exchange and its importance to effective and safe …
Read more >In health care costs, Michigan is doing something right
Editor’s Note: This column was published in Bridge Magazine. Variation in health care spending between states has been well documented for decades by many researchers, most notably, those who produce the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. The reasons behind this variation in spending have generally been less understood and much debated. Our center wanted to understand this variation better, particularly …
Read more >Covering the Uninsured: Who has the will and who has the way?
Panel Discussion on the Uninsured Sponsored by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation On Friday, May 2, 2008, Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, will convene a panel of experts to explore the problem of America’s 47 million uninsured. Panelists Catherine McLaughlin, Professor of Health Management & Policy and director of the Economic Research …
Read more >Atul Gawande
Free Public Lecture Sponsored by U-M Clinical Affairs and Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande, M.D., is nationally known for his writing in the New Yorker, New York Times and Slate.com and his books on health care quality, patient safety, and the culture of medicine. His most recent book, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, is …
Read more >Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQI): A Strategy That Works For Improving Health Care Quality & Cost
Health Care Quality Symposium 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. University of Michigan’s Palmer Commons, Forum Hall Can quality improvement and cost savings go hand in hand? Michigan physicians and hospitals, working together in Collaborative Quality Initiatives sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network (BCBSM/BCN), are achieving outstanding results in both. For example: Hospital deaths following …
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