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Featured Healthcare Partner

Unity Health Insurance is a health maintenance organization that serves over 130,000 members located in south central Wisconsin, primarily in Dane County. 

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Featured Research Partner

The Wisconsin Partnership Program is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Wisconsin residents through improvements in research, education, prevention practices and interventions, and policy development.

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Free-the-Data Program

The goal of the “Free-the-Data” Program is to make analysis-ready healthcare data available to UW faculty, staff, trainees, and UW Health staff for research and quality improvement purposes.

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HIPxChange

HIP supports the development and dissemination of tools for evidence-based health system change through its website, HIPxChange.

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Featured Toolkit: Toolkit on Patient Partner Engagement in Research

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Patients and their representatives (e.g., caregivers or family members) provide invaluable feedback and make decisions that improve the relevance and meaning of research. Ongoing patient and patient partner engagement positively shapes all stages of the research process - through the study's preparation, execution, and translation.

The Toolkit on Patient Partner Engagement in Research (TOPPER) is a collection of materials designed to support the creation and ongoing engagement of patients and patient partners in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.

It includes a patient partner orientation session agenda, a detailed manual for two facilitators to use during orientation, and 20 supplementary worksheets, exercises, forms, and examples.

News

Coordinated Transitional Care Program Identified as a Nationwide VA Best Practice

C-TraC LogoThe Coordinated Transitional Care (C-TraC) program led by HIP investigator Dr. Amy Kind was recently identified by the Veterans Engineering Resource Center as one of 4 best practices to improve care coordination in Veterans Affairs hospitals nationwide. The C-TraC program is a low-resource, registered nurse telephone-based initiative that aims to improve transitional care and post-discharge outcomes. You can learn more about C-TraC and download the protocol on HIPxChange. 

Maureen Smith Receives AAMC Learning Health System Champion Award

Maureen SmithDr. Maureen Smith recently received an AAMC Learning Health System Research Champion Award to recognize connections that were built between the UW Health, the UW Office of Continuing Professional Development, and the Health Innovation Program to link clinical quality improvement, maintenance of certification, and research. Together, these groups created a web-based resource to support clinicians in the writing and preparation of manuscripts based on their quality improvement activities, facilitating the evolution from quality improvement to generalizable knowledge. 

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Publications

Development of a list of high-risk operations for patients 65 years and older

Elderly Patient talking to doctorsDr. Gretchen Schwarze et al. recently developed a list of 227 high-risk operations that had at least 1% operative mortality for older adults. The list, published in JAMA Surgery, can serve as a tool in patient-doctor discussions of surgery risk, as well as in future studies and targeted clinical interventions. It was developed using a modified Delphi procedure and analysis of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council and Nationwide Inpatient Sample datasets.

Diagnosis and treatment of incident hypertension among patients with diabetes

Nurse measuring blood pressureIn a recent study that evaluated hypertension diagnosis and treatment among patients with diabetes mellitus and incident hypertension, HIP investigators found that among the patients who met the clinical criteria for hypertension (130/80 mmHg), only 41% received a diagnosis and 37% received medication. Patients who had peripheral vascular disease or fewer visits were likely to have slower diagnosis rates and medication initiation.

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Learn more about HIP

Watch HIP's director, Maureen Smith, MD, MPH, PhD, discuss the mission, vision, and impact of the Health Innovation Program.                   

Learn how HIP supports researchers through an interview with Amy Kind, MD, PhD, as she discusses her work with HIP on transitions in care.

See how the Health Innovation Program and the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) partner to improve health in the state of Wisconsin.

 

 

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