Diabetic retinopathy remains the leading cause of blindness among working-age U.S. adults largely due to low screening rates. Rural populations face particularly greater challenges to screening because they are older, poorer, less insured, and less likely to receive guideline-concordant care than those in urban areas. Current patient education efforts may not fully address multiple barriers… Read more »
Dr. Maureen Smith, HIP Director, was recently featured in a video from the Wisconsin Partnership Program about her disparities project with the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality and the Collaborative Center for Health Equity. This project aims to develop and implement a publicly reported measure of disparity in the quality of care in Wisconsin and… Read more »
A significant and growing proportion of US children have immigrant parents, an issue of increasing importance to pediatricians. Training globally minded pediatric residents to address health inequities related to globalization is an important reason to expand educational strategies around local global health (LGH). HIP Investigator, Dr. Ryan Coller et al. developed a curriculum in the… Read more »
Dr. Heather Johnson was recently invited to participate in the Wisconsin Hypertension Symposium, which brought together clinical providers, policy makers, health insurers, and state and national organizations such as the American Medical Association and the American Heart Association to develop action plans to improve hypertension diagnosis and control in Wisconsin. Dr. Johnson’s research showing that… Read more »
Individuals in Wisconsin can now view the prevalence of obesity at the Zip Code level. The Obesity Prevention Initiative, funded through the Wisconsin Partnership Program, has released a report that was co-authored by HIP staff Lauren Bednarz, MPH and Maureen Smith, MD, PhD, MPH, along with an interactive mapping tool on the Wisconsin Health Atlas… Read more »
Eva DuGoff and co-authors investigated the agreement of primary care providers (PCPs) identified by claims algorithms and in EHR data. This study looked at Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with diabetes age 65+ and found agreement was higher for algorithms based on primary care visits. The algorithms perform less well among vulnerable populations and those experiencing fragmented… Read more »
Dr. Heather Johnson recently served as the keynote speaker at the 7th Annual National Wear Red Day event at Fountain of Life Church. The goal of the event was to educate African American on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and lifestyle changes that women can make to reduce their risk. Wear Red Day also… Read more »
Patients with diabetes have a well-established elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. Statins reduce morbidity and mortality among patients with diabetes, but their use remains suboptimal. In this study, HIP Investigator Dr. Meghan Brennan et al. sought to understand trends in statin use to inform strategies for improvement. They found that Statin use is slowly increasing… Read more »
Dr. Maureen Smith was recently awarded a 4-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to support a Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)-sponsored effort in collaboration with the Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) to measure and publicly report disparities in the quality of care for health systems across the state of Wisconsin. While Wisconsin… Read more »
The video of Austin Frakt’s recent seminar co-sponsored by HIP and the UW Population Health Institute, “Hospitals, Cost-Shifting, and Medicaid Provider Payments,” is now available to view online. In his talk, Dr. Frakt used a lemonade stand metaphor to explain cost-shifting. His recent response to a critique of this metaphor appears in The Incidental Economist:… Read more »
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