Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference
On September 8, 2008, Shakeh J. Kaftarian, Ph.D., made this presentation at the 2008 Annual Conference.
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Hard-won Wisdom from Successful Healthcare Services Research Innovators: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions
Shakeh J. Kaftarian, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, Women's Health and Gender Research
AHRQ Annual Conference
September 8, 2008
Slide 2
Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) Mission
- Improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
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Our Challenge
- Facilitate an innovative culture in health services research
- Close the cost-quality gap
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AHRQ Portfolios of Work
- Comparative Effectiveness
- Health information technology
- Patient safety
- Prevention/Care Management
- Value
- EMERGING ISSUES & INNOVATIONS
Notes:
- Close to 80% of AHRQ's work takes place in the context of 6 portfolios, which are:
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The Vision
- Identify/capture emerging issues to be included in Health Services Research (HSR).
- Foster and nurture ideas and approaches that have the potential for highly innovative solutions to healthcare challenges.
Notes:
- The photo is the entrance to the new stadium for the 2008 Olympics.
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The Vision (continued)
- Put fast-paced and customer-centered innovations in healthcare to improve:
- Delivery
- Organization
- Financing
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The Vision (continued)
- Support researchers who:
- Have innovative ideas with the potential for high impact.
- Covering a diverse & non-traditional array of disciplines.
Notes:
- The photo is the entrance to the new stadium for the 2008 Olympics.
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The Vision (continued)
- Customer & stakeholder centered models
- Shared risks & rewards
- New paradigms of HSR
Notes:
- Photo shows stakeholder (e.g., IBM) and customers and a new paradigm for 2015.
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Samples of Specific Target Areas Include:
- Health care workforce/teams
- Financing approaches
- Organization of care
- Horizontal networks of:
- Health care
- Wellness care
- Improved responsibility/accountability:
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Goals
- Support ideas substantially different from those pursued elsewhere & before.
- Promote innovative solutions to existing conditions and pressing healthcare problems.
- Accelerated improvement in healthcare and its financing.
Notes:
- Photo is Einstein at the blackboard
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Our Thoughts So Far
- Request for ideas from field
- Town hall meetings (Tuesday, 10-11:30 am)
- Funding announcements:
- Awards for innovative approaches to emerging issues and methodologies in HSR
- Learn from others
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Learn From Others: How did they...
- Identify new/emerging areas
- Develop processes, methods, mechanisms, financing sources
- Develop approaches with successful technical, economic, managerial and organizational facets
- Deal with important challenges, opportunities and solutions
- Validate/confirm value of innovative approach
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This Plenary
- Nigel Smith, AARP
- Shelly Evenson, Carnegie Mellon University
- Matthew Maleska, Mayo Clinic
- Tim Ogilvie, Peer Insight
- Questions/Answers (Q/A)
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This Plenary
- Nigel Smith, AARP
- Member-centric approach to
- Capturing emerging areas of member needs
- Through concept mapping methodology
- Shelly Evenson, Carnegie Mellon University
- Design thinking
- Match healthcare services (HS) needs of clients to technology, viable business options, value and opportunity
- Matthew Maleska, Mayo Clinic
- A "lab" model @ Mayo clinic
- Transform HS experience through innovative approach
- Bring new services into practice
Current as of December 2008
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