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Resources

Generating, adopting and implementing health care innovations are complex processes. The following resources are designed to inform and guide your efforts.

guides

Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations

The Guide helps users determine if an innovation would be a good fit—or an appropriate stretch—for their health care organization by asking a series of questions. It links users to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies that illustrate how other organizations have addressed these questions. Users will be able to answer the four overarching questions the Guide poses:

  • Does this innovation fit?
  • Should we do it here?
  • Can we do it here?
  • How can we do it here?

Authors:
Cindy Brach, AHRQ; Nancy Lenfestey, Amy Roussel, Jacqueline Amoozegar, and Asta Sorenson, RTI International

Download this Guide as a PDF
(Adobe Reader is required to open or print this guide. Download a free copy.)

Read the commentary: New Guide Charts Course for Navigating Challenges of Innovation Adoption

Listen to the podcast: Health Care Innovations: A New Guide for Decision Makers

Last updated: June 29, 2009.

webinars

Roller Coaster: Implementation of the Arizona Medical Information Exchange (AMIE)

When: Thursday, August 13

Webinar Host: Judi Consalvo, AHRQ Center for Outcomes and Evidence
(PDF, 2 mb)

Moderator: Foster Gesten, Office of Health Insurance Programs, New York State Department of Health
(PDF, 192 kb)

Innovators:

Marc Leib, Office of the Director, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
(PDF, 208 kb)

Anita Murcko, Clinical Informatics and Provider Adoption, AHCCCS
(PDF, 428 kb)

Perry Yastrov, EHR Systems and Services, AHCCCS
(PDF, 842 kb)

Innovation: Instant Access to Clinical Information From Other Providers Leads to Reports of Higher Quality and Lower Costs for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Expert: Suzanne Sisley, Family Physician Practice
(PDF, 77 kb)

conference sessions

AHRQ Lunch and Learn Session: Highlighting Innovations from the Health Care Innovations Exchange

Held September 9 at the AHRQ 2008 Conference on Promoting Quality...Partnering for Change

Opening Remarks: Mary Nix, MS, Project Officer for the Health Care Innovations Exchange
Rick Rader, MD, Innovations Exchange Editorial Advisory Board Member
Director, Morton J. Kent Habilitation Center
Orange Grove Inc.

Presentations (Windows Media 16.2 mb)

Innovator: James Lee, MD, The Everett Clinic, Washington
Topic: Palliative Care
Commentary by Rick Rader, MD

Presentations (Windows Media 19.4 mb)
Read Innovation Profile

Innovator: Verluria Cobbs, Program Coordinator, National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
Topic: Healthy Hair Starts with a Healthy Body
Commentary by Rick Rader, MD

Presentations (Windows Media 19.4 mb)
Read Innovation Profile

Innovator: Nick Vizzoca, Business Manager, Innovation Center, Magee Women’s Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Topic: Patient and Family Centered Care Initiative
Commentary by Rick Rader, MD

Presentations (Windows Media 23.8 mb)
Read Innovation Profile

Question and Answer Session (Windows Media 17.0 mb)

(Microsoft Windows Media Player software is required to open these files. Download a free copy.)

podcasts

Health Care Innovations: A New Guide for Decision Makers

Cindy Brach, MPP
Sr. Health Policy Researcher
AHRQ Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets

 
 
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