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Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference

The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: Moving to Scale

Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference

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The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: Moving to Scale

Veronica F. Nieva, PhD
Westat
Rockville, MD

AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference
Leading Through Innovation & Collaboration
September 19, 2011
Bethesda, MD

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After Innovation� Scale Up and Spread

• Over 600 evidence-based Innovations.
• How to bridge the gap between these innovations and potential adopters?
• How to accelerate the rate of spread?

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Innovation Scaling

"Deliberate efforts to increase the impact of health service innovations locally tested in pilot or experimental projects, so as to benefit more people and to foster policy and program development on a lasting basis."

Simmons R, Fajans P, Ghiron L (2007)

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Image of a flowchart with the following text:

Dissemination: the targeted distribution of information and intervention materials to specific audiences + Implementation: the use of strategies to adopt and implement interventions within specific settings → Scaling

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Key Concepts

• Types of Scaling.
• Factors Affecting Scaling.

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Types of Scaling

Top-down:

• Hierarchical.
• Centralized.

Bottom-up:

• Led by inspired individuals.

Relational:

• Network based.
• Participatory.

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Types of Scaling

A flow chart of scaling is shown.

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Factors Affecting Scale Up

Scale Up:

• The Innovation.
• Adopting Organizations.
• Scaling Organizations.
• Stakeholder Organizations.
• Policy and Market Environments.
• Methods for Scaling.
• The Innovator.

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Is the Innovation Ready for Scaling?

The Innovation:

• Credibility.
• Relevance and Compatibility.
• "Trialability" / Testable.
• Evidence.
• Clear benefits for each stakeholder group.
• Well-defined core components.
• Cost efficiency.
• Return on investment (ROI).

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Is the Adopting Organization Ready for the Innovation?

Adopting Organizations:

• Internal Change Champions.
• "Learning Organization".
• Innovation-specific capacity:
  • Space?
  • Professional role changes?
  • Technology?
  • Work flow impact? Patient role changes?
• Beware of innovation fatigue!

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Is the Innovator Ready to Scale?

The Innovator:

• Innovator and Spread roles differ:
  • Innovators vs. Entrepreneurs.
• Many innovators are not interested in spread:
  • Academic research.
  • Specific problem solving.
• Interested innovators need to learn spread skills:
  • "Marketing" is not a dirty word.

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What Roles Might Scaling Organizations Have?

Scaling Organizations:

• Visioning and planning.
• Stakeholder assessment.
• Coalition and partnership building.
• Process documentation.
• Project evaluation.
• Fundraising.

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What Methods can be Used to Scale?

Methods for Scaling:

• "Campaigns"
  • Top-down.
  • National, state or community levels.
  • Public or private initiatives.
  • Often with supportive regulations.
  • Across sectors and involving many organizations.

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Methods for Scaling

• More "Top-Down" Methods:
  • Executive Mandates—top down, within system.
  • Wave sequence—unfolding within system.
  • Extension Agents—agricultural model.

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Methods for Scaling

• Technical Assistance.
• Consulting.
• Collaborative Learning.
• Licensing/Franchising.
• Credentialing.

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How Can Stakeholder Organizations be Engaged?

Images: Logos for professional organizations, insurers, foundations, and other types of stakeholders are shown.

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Does the Policy Environment Support the Innovation?

Policy and Market Environments:

• Supportive legislation and regulations:
  • Affordable Care Act.
  • Medicare Shared Savings Program (ACOs).
• Policy barriers:
  • E.g., Volume based reimbursement policies.

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Is the Market Environment Supportive?

Policy and Market Environments:

• Competitive advantage of the innovation, vis-à-vis comparables.
• Readiness of the potential adopter "markets"—organizations, providers, patients.

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Some Questions

• Who should lead Scale Up and Spread efforts?
• What would an effective Scale Up and Spread infrastructure look like?
• How should individual behaviors change to support spread?

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References

• Cooley L, Kohl R. Scaling Up: From Vision to Large Scale Change—A Management Framework for Practitioners. Management Science International. Washington DC, March 2006.
• Going to Scale: Can we bring more benefits to more people more quickly? Workshop Highlights (draft) presented by the CGIAR-NGO Committee and The Global Forum for Agricultural Research (with other organizations), April 2000.
• Greenhalgh, T., Robert, G., Macfarlane, F., Bate, P., & Kyriakidou, O. (2004). Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations: Systematic Review and Recommendations. Milbank Quarterly 82(4), 581-629.
• Hartmann A, Linn JF. Scaling Up: A Framework and Lessons for Development Effectiveness from Literature and Practice. Brookings Institute (Wolfensohn Center for Development) Working Paper 5, Oct 2008.
• Massoud MR, Donohue KL, McCannon CJ. Options for Large-scale Spread of Simple, High-impact Interventions. Technical Report, Sept 2010 for USAID.

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References

• McCannon CJ, Berwick D, Massoud MR. The Science of Large Scale Change. JAMA 2007; 298(16):1937-1939.
• Norton WE, Mittman BS. Scaling Up Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Programs in Community Settings: Barriers, Facilitators, and Initial Recommendations. Jan 2010, Report submitted to Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation (available on sss.donaghue.org).
• Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusions of Innovations. New York: Free Press. Fifth Edition.
• Simmons R, Shiffman, J. Scaling-up health service innovations: A framework for action. In Simmons R, Fajans P, Ghiron L (Eds.), Scaling-up health delivery: From pilot innovations to policies and programmes. Geneva, Switzerland: World Heath Organization, 2007.
• Uvin, P (1995). "Fighting Hunger at the Grassroots: Paths to Scaling Up," World Development 23(6): 927-939.
• Yuan CT, Nembhard IM, Stern AF, Brush JE, Krumholz HM, Bradley EH. Blueprint for the Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices in Health Care. The Commonwealth Fund. Issue Brief, May 2010.

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The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: Moving to Scale. Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference (Text Version). December 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/annualconf11/nieva_roberson_wick/nieva.htm