Charting Your Career in
Health Services Research:
New Opportunities for the
Field
2011 Annual Research Meeting
June 14, 2011
Session Objectives
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Discuss new approaches to generating evidence to
advance health and health care, including:
– Data collection
– Analysis
– Dissemination and translation
Learn about personal/career progression that has led
panelists to pursue opportunities and engage with new
communities or perspectives, data sources, resources,
etc.
Learn ways to build or enhance your career by exploring
new approaches to generating evidence, and putting it
into use.
Panelists
Aman Bhandari, HHS
 Eddie Castillo, UCSD
 Lizzie Dunklee, Health 2.0
 Fred Trotter, Cautious Patient
Foundation
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Improving Health and Health Care
As the professional society for health
services researchers and health policy
analysts, our mission is three-fold
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Support the development of health services
research
Facilitate the use of the best available
research and information
Assist health policy and practice leaders in
addressing major health challenges
We work to both “push” the production of
research and promote the “pull” by
decision makers
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Advancing the Science of HSR
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Glossary of terms
Data sources
Suggested reading
Links to methods
tutorials
Methods Minute
www.HSRMethods.org
Providing Training Opportunities
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Seminars on Methods
and Data
CMS PUF Claims files
series in July
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Professional skill-building
and policy topics
www.academyhealth.org/
edcatalog
Building the Field
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AcademyHealth Methods Council
Online Learning
HSR 2020 Summit Series
– Assessing Workforce
– Data and Methods
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HSR Consortium
– HSR Core Competencies
– State of the Field Brief
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Current Projects (examples)
– Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum
– Health Information Technology (HIT) and HSR
for Actionable Knowledge
– CER Inventory
– Beacon Evidence and Innovation Network
The Changing Landscape
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
– Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
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Office of the National Coordinator
– HITECH
• Meaningful Use Incentives
• Beacon Communities
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
– Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
(PCORI)
– Accountable Care Organizations
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Efforts to Improve Quality and ‘Bend’ the Cost
Curve
New Opportunities for the Field
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Emerging Data Sources
– Federal Health Data (e.g. health indicators warehouse)
– Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Registries
– Patient Contributed Data
• Patient Reported Information (e.g. PHRs)
• Biomonitoring (e.g. Asthmapolis)
• Crowd-sourced Data (e.g. mHealth)
– Claims Data
• Public Use Files
• Multi-payer claims database
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Mashups (mixing data from multiple sources)
Support the Role of HSR in Building
a New Evidence Infrastructure
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Improve health care, individual and
population health by enhancing HSR’s:
– Relevance
• Stakeholder engagement
– Reliability
• Methodologically Rigorous
– Responsiveness
• Timely generation and dissemination of evidence
AcademyHealth Evidence
Infrastructure Portfolio
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Includes efforts to:
– Advance the Science of HSR
• Research methods development
• Innovations in data capture, synthesis, and dissemination
• Best practices for the development and use of CER and PCOR
– Engage consumers in health and health care
– Identify and promote best practices in data governance
(privacy, security, access, etc.)
– Provide continuous professional development
– Translate and disseminate HSR
Join the Discussion Online
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www.AcademyHealth.org
My.Academyhealth.org
www.edm-forum.org
Participate in Events
CMS PUF webinar series
(July/August 2011)
 Fall webinar series on CER
 Free archived webinars
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– Data innovations
– Gray literature
Write and Build!
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Submit an abstract for the EDM Forum
commissioned papers on CER:
– analytic methods,
– clinical informatics,
– data governance,
– CER and the learning healthcare system
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REACH Challenge
REACH Challenge
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Relevant Evidence to Advance Care and Health
(REACH) Challenge
– Produce innovative applications for:
• patients,
• caregivers,
• clinicians
– Provide access to evidence-based and relevant information
leveraging secure messaging
– Support more meaningful engagement and real-time
decisions
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Sign up at www.health2challenge.org/.
Stay Connected
Via E-mail Updates
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Two ways to stay connected
– Methods Minute
• Sign up at hsrmethods@academyHealth.org
– Informatics and innovations
• Sheets available in the Innovation Station
• Send a request to ben.decoudres@academyhealth.org
Thank you!
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Erin Holve, PhD, MPH, MPP
Director
AcademyHealth
erin.holve@academyhealth.org
@hsrher
@academyhealth