Our Mission
To transform healthcare delivery and population health across the state and nation through health systems research that partners University of Wisconsin faculty with healthcare and community organizations.
Our Model
HIP is a campus-wide program based within the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. HIP encompasses:
- A community of investigators, staff, and trainees committed to conducting partnered research to improve health and health equity
- Partnerships with healthcare and community organizations dedicated to achieving a common vision of improved service delivery through innovative interventions and rigorous evaluation
- A model of research with partnering organizations that ensures that high-priority questions are asked and answered in a useful way and that the learnings are shared to support organizational change efforts
- Extensive and easily-available data resources that support both high-quality research and evidence-based decision making for health
- An outstanding virtual environment that supports collaboration with colleagues across the nation
Message from the Director
Each day we face a healthcare system that delivers unpredictable quality at an increasing cost. We currently have only the most rudimentary tools to improve the value of care that is delivered. Collaboration among both researchers and healthcare organizations is critical to develop new tools and drive improvement.
As a program in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, HIP supports innovation in healthcare practice through providing data resources that support both high-quality research and evidence-based decision making. We also facilitate direct links between University of Wisconsin researchers and our partnering healthcare organizations.
By supporting both research and improvement goals, HIP seeks to reduce the barriers to creating and using evidence to improve healthcare for patients across the state of Wisconsin and the nation.
