Healthcare Value and Payment Innovations

In today's health care system, nearly every stakeholder is focused on delivering greater value. Better health outcomes for patients and greater efficiency in health care delivery and health care spending are over-arching goals. NEHI's research and policy agenda reflects the multiple approaches that NEHI member organizations are now taking towards realizing higher value in U.S. health care, from alternative payment models for provider reimbursement, to value-based arrangements between health care payers and pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, to patient engagement initiatives designed to bring greater equity and patient focus to the care experienced by patients every day.

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Publication Date: August 12, 2009

Thinking Outside the Pillbox: A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease

This issue brief addresses the root causes of poor patient medication adherence - a significant contributor to overall health care waste - and offers promising solutions to improve adherence, particularly among chronic disease patients.
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Publication Date: May 26, 2009

Remaking Primary Care: From Crisis to Opportunity

This report focuses on the factors contributing to the failure of our current primary care system and offers innovative approaches to reform its design and delivery.
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Publication Date: April 20, 2009

Balancing Act: Comparative Effectiveness Research and Innovation in U.S. Health Care

This white paper, representing the views of a broad range of health care stakeholders, provides a first-of-its-kind framework for designing and implementing a federal CER program that will sustain the unique dynamics of innovation in health care.
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Publication Date: July 21, 2008

Comparative Effectiveness Research

A summary of NEHI's work in comparative effectiveness research.
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Publication Date: February 25, 2008

Improving Physician Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines

To address the variance between agreed-upon standards of care and actual care provided by strengthening physician guidelines, we must overcome key barriers to adherence.
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Publication Date: December 19, 2006

A Case Study on CPOE: A Blueprint for a Beginning

The Massachusetts Hospital CPOE Initiative is a groundbreaking and dynamic undertaking that has brought critical people in the state together to accelerate the adoption of this innovative technology.
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Publication Date: September 1, 2006

Saving Lives, Reducing Costs: CPOE Lessons Learned in Community Hospitals

A group of chief information officers and project managers from Massachusetts hospitals currently implementing or planning to implement CPOE have identified six focus areas to improve implementation: physician incentives, process redesign, metrics, physician training, governance of clinical decision support and leadership commitment.
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Publication Date: January 1, 2006

Insulin Analogs: Innovation in Biotechnology

Insulin analog drugs, used in combination therapy, are valuable and cost-effective for type 1 diabetes patients.
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Publication Date: March 1, 2005

Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Innovation in the Management of Diabetes

CGM devices have potential to be highly valuable and cost-effective tools in managing diabetes.
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Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Targeting Cancer: Innovation in the Treatment of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

The adoption of Gleevec, a pioneering drug in the treatment of CML, highlights challenges and opportunities in bringing drugs treating rare diseases to market.

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