January 2018 Edition
 
Top Policy Insights from IHPI in 2017

Amid the recent flurry of end-of-year highlights, our IHPI Impact Accelerator team has compiled a list of " IHPI Top Policy Insights of 2017," featuring some of the significant stories from IHPI and its members over the past year.

Some highlights include:
  • The first peer-reviewed study from IHPI's evaluation of the Healthy Michigan Plan, which found that most Michigan Medicaid enrollees either already work, or can't work, likely because of serious health conditions. Widely covered in the news media, including a New York Times editorial, this analysis provides new insights for states that are considering imposing work requirements for Medicaid recipients.
  • Important, sometimes surprising findings from the new National Poll on Healthy Aging about issues related to the health and healthcare of Americans 50 years of age and older. Since its launch in June 2017, the poll has issued reports on oral health, caregiving, drug costs, drug interactions, and sleep.
  • One of Health Affairs' "most read" articles of the year, about the costs associated with low-value care.
  • A study that demonstrated the benefits of prenatal Medicaid care across generations.
  • Michigan-OPEN's post-surgical opioid prescribing guidelines.
Please check out the full list here, which also features research on surgical quality, sepsis, behavioral health, and more.

In 2017, we also issued our first news magazine, Profiles in Innovation, which provides powerful examples of the many ways that IHPI members are advancing the understanding of healthcare and public health to help make a difference for individuals and communities across the nation and around the world.

Impact can be measured in many ways, and in some cases may take years to emerge. Helping ensure our members' work has the greatest potential impact on policy, research, and practice is a top priority for IHPI, and we move into the new year with renewed commitment to solve healthcare's thorniest challenges together.

To learn more about the accomplishments of our IHPI community in the past year and plans for 2018, IHPI faculty members are invited to join our Annual Member Forum this Wednesday, January 24 at 2:00 p.m. in the NCRC Dining Room.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 

As flu season swings into high gear, a new poll suggests that nursing homes and other long-term care facilities should be doing more to get their staff and patients vaccinated before it's too late.
 



Nearly three-quarters of people over age 50 surveyed say that all staff in such facilities should definitely be required to get the flu vaccine. The new results, from the National Poll on Healthy Aging, come at a time when nursing homes and assisted living facilities lag behind hospitals and other healthcare settings in the rate of flu vaccination among staff.

 
 
Englesbe takes over as MSQC director, Krapohl to serve as associate director

Michael Englesbe, M.D., professor of surgery, was named the new director of the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative (MSQC), taking over for Skip Campbell, M.D., professor emeritus of surgery, who is reducing his effort but will continue to have an office at MSQC. Greta Krapohl, Ph.D., R.N., research investigator in the Department of Surgery, will serve as the associate director.

 
Campbell (left) and Englesbe (right)
 
 
Saint and Krein Receive 2017 HSR&D Health System Impact Award

Sarah Krein, Ph.D., RN, and Sanjay Saint, M.D., M.P.H., are the recipients of the 2017 Health System Impact Award from the VA Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D).

Krein and Saint earned the award for their scientific and operational efforts to make Veterans' care safer by reducing the risks of unneeded and harmful urinary catheters. Their work has significantly changed practice across the VA. Moreover, their work has driven changes in urinary catheter practice in the U.S. private sector and around the world.

 
Krein and Saint
 
 
Chung Appointed Director of New Michigan Medicine Comprehensive Hand Center

Kevin C. Chung, M.D., M.S., chief of hand surgery, assistant dean for Instructional Faculty, and associate director for Global REACH, was appointed as director of the new Michigan Medicine Comprehensive Hand Center (MMCHC). The center will bring together nationally renowned clinicians and ancillary service providers to diagnose, treat and rehabilitate hand, wrist and elbow conditions resulting from trauma and chronic diseases. Researchers in the MMCHC will collaborate across disciplines to conduct clinical and health services research that will inform the clinical care of the future.
 
Chung
 
 
McKee Appointed to Roundtable on Health Literacy

Michael McKee, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family medicine, is one of seven new appointees to the Roundtable on Health Literacy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Roundtable was established in 2005 to build upon the work of the Institute of Medicine consensus report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion. It brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations and associations, and representatives of patient and consumer interests who have an interest and role in improving health literacy.
 
McKee
 
 
Braun and McCullagh Join Third Cohort of Interprofessional Leadership Fellows at U-M

Thomas Braun, Ph.D., M.S., professor of public health, and Marjorie McCullagh, Ph.D., R.N., professor of nursing, are among 21 educators selected to the third cohort of the Interprofessional Leadership (IPL) Fellows program.

The new fellows will add to the accomplishments of the preceding 32 IPL faculty fellows (17 in the second cohort and 15 in the first cohort, respectively), who have launched eight multidisciplinary team projects to date. These projects have won regional awards and have already contributed to the growing landscape of interprofessional health education and practice in Michigan and beyond.

 
Membership Has its Privileges!

Are you taking full advantage of your IHPI membership? Learn more about your benefits  here.
 
 
 
Sarah Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Medical School, Internal Medicine

I focus on understanding and improving quality across the continuum of cancer care. I've always been interested in how we can do a better job of getting people the care that they need, and helping patients be more engaged in their care. I'm also interested in studying the reasons behind overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and their potential negative consequences.

VIEW PROFILE
 
  EVENTS
 
 

Date: February 15, 2018
Time:  4:00 p.m. ---  5:00 p.m. 
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D., Victor Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine, and professor of internal medicine, history, and health management and policy

This talk will trace the history of health care, education, and research at the University of Michigan. It will emphasize the ways in which studying the process of change over time can help us make decisions about the future. Reception and networking to immediately follow the presentation.
 
 
U-M Promotion and Tenure: Strategies for Success

Date: January 23, 2018
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Danto Auditorium, Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Speaker: Margaret R. Gyetko, M.D., senior associate dean for faculty and faculty development, Medical School

Faculty interested in exploring the Medical School's promotion and tenure process are invited to attend the winter faculty meeting. Early career faculty members are strongly encouraged to attend this presentation as it will give them valuable information as they begin to navigate the promotion and tenure process.

A reception with light refreshments will follow. The session will be recorded for those unable to attend. For more information, contact Lorraine Robert at (734) 763-0253 or  llrober@umich.edu.
 
 
High-Volume Digital Biomedical Data: Promise and Potential to Improve Healthcare Quality

Date: January 24, 2018
Time: 3:30 p.m. ---  4:30 p.m.
Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons Building
Speaker: Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Ph.D., associate professor, Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Surgery, General Surgery and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford School of Medicine
Co-Sponsors: Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, and the Department of Learning Health Sciences Seminar

In the era of high-volume digital biomedical data, it is possible to efficiently and accurately examine the processes and outcomes of care to improve healthcare delivery. Information must be captured, processed, and integrated into a system that generates real-world evidence available to both the healthcare system as well as the patient ---- in a timely manner. Dr. Hernandez-Boussard will discuss the infrastructure we have developed that leverages the abundant amount of information captured across biomedical domains.
 

 
 

Date: January 31, 2018
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 16, Room 266C
Speaker: Terri Voepel-Lewis, RN, Ph.D., associate research scientist, Anesthesiology

This talk will summarize findings from recent work demonstrating how parents' risk knowledge and perceptions together with their pain relief preferences affect their decisions to give or withhold opioids. It will describe a novel educational intervention that may be able to enhance specific risk perceptions, shift preferences toward risk aversion, and improve the safety of opioid decision-making.
 
 
CCMR Visiting Early Career Investigator

Date: February 27, 2018
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Speaker:  Travis Lovejoy, Ph.D., M.P.H., clinical psychologist, VA HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) at the VA Portland Health Care System, and assistant professor of psychiatry and public health at Oregon Health and Science University

The CCMR Mentorship Core is kicking off a new Visiting Early Career Investigator Program hosting visiting investigators from other COINs. CME credit is available for this presentation.
 
Lovejoy
 
 
MCIRCC Seminar Series: "Thou Shalt Not Touch---- Nonobtrusive and Noncontact Monitoring Techniques for Medical Applications"

Date: March 9, 2018
Time: 3:00 --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Speaker: Steffen Leonhardt, M.D., Ph.D., Philips endowed Chair of Medical Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
 
Leonhardt
 
 
The Google of Healthcare: Making Big Data Work for---- As Opposed to Against---- Our Patients' Best Interest

Date: March 14, 2018
Time: 2:00--- 3:30 p.m. 
Location: Hatcher Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library
Sponsor: Emergent Research Working Group, U-M Library

Our data are collected at every turn: where we drive, who we email, what we google, what we buy. Perhaps a last bastion of expected privacy protections surrounds our health data ---- but while some systems (like healthcare providers) have stringent governance, others (like wellness apps) do not. Ready access and linkage of medical information can help us provide better care to our patients, but it can also serve to harm, alienate, and erode trust. This talk will explore how health data are currently being collected and by whom, as well as ways we can both serve and protect our patients in the future.
 
 
 
 
 
Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR)

Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) provides consulting services and training opportunities in statistics, data science, and advanced research computation to researchers in all fields, regardless of skill level.

Free consulting is available to all U-M researchers; workshops are open to all members of the U-M community. Visit the CSCAR web site for additional information, and to schedule individual consultation sessions. Questions can be directed to cscar@umich.edu.
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC

SIREN's evidence library provides a curated collection of "research articles, issue briefs, reports, and commentaries that either focus on or are relevant to evaluating health care-based interventions that address patients' social and economic needs." It offers the ability to filter results by study design, social determinant of health, population, or outcome. It also provides access to related webinars and metrics, measures, and instruments.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
View Health Management and Policy Guide.
 
 
 
In Chronic Disease Care, Family Helpers Are Key, But Feel Left Out

In a new paper published in the journal Families, Systems and Health, a U-M team including  John D. Piette, Ph.D., M.S., Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., Mary Janevic, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Ken Langa, M.D., Ph.D., and collaborators from the University of Pittsburgh and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, reports the results of a national survey of more than 700 adults who said they helped at least one adult family member or friend manage a common chronic illness.


The survey focused on those who assisted with tasks related to medications, medical appointments, health care forms and cooking healthy food. The results suggest that there's a pent-up need for health care teams to involve such supporters more in their loved ones' care, if the patient is willing.

 
 
Op-Ed: When Doctors Don't Do Their Homework, They Enable Opioid Abuse

In a piece for Bridge Magazine, Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, describes why she supported recently passed state legislation requiring health care providers to check the Michigan Automated Prescription System (MAPS) when prescribing more than a three-day supply of a schedule 2 -- 5 controlled substance to a patient.

"As a personal rule, I universally review the MAPS system prior to writing all narcotic prescriptions. Michigan's new and updated MAPS system will only be effective if it is utilized universally by the physician and health provider communities," she writes.

 
Cunningham
 
 
Bringing a New Dimension to Eye Exams

A new 3-D photographic technique, adapted from automotive engineering, could offer a fast and simple way to capture the eye's intricate features with richer detail ---- and might one day be used to help people obtain access to specialty eye care remotely.


"By using this camera, we can create a permanent digital record of the same kind of images that ophthalmologists form in their minds through physical examinations, which can be examined at any time, and examined over time to measure changes," says  Maria Woodward, M.D., M.S., an ophthalmologist at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center.

 
   
MORE NEWS


Female doctors adjust lives to accommodate home life (Reuters--- Jagsi)
 
  FUNDING
 
 
Funding Available: National Service Engagement Faculty Travel Support

The Office of the President will award funds to support faculty travel for public engagement activities. This funding is intended for any faculty member who has been invited to share expertise and capacity in a high level policy engagement at the national level and where travel funding is not otherwise provided. Such activities might include expert testimony to Congress, leadership service on national boards of professional societies, or involvement in other high level national leadership and advisory positions.

For more information on the travel awards or to apply, please visit the  National Service Engagement Faculty Travel Support page.
 
 
U-M Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program "Coulter Program" 2018 Call for Proposals

Deadline: February 2, 2018

The Coulter Program funds collaborative translational research projects between Engineering and Clinical faculty co-investigators. The goal of the program is to accelerate development and commercialization of new medical devices, diagnostics, and other biomedical product concepts that address unmet clinical needs and lead to improvements in healthcare. Projects are actively supported and mentored by Coulter Program Management and a team of industry-experienced experts who proactively work to accelerate Coulter Program objectives. Coulter Program objectives and metrics for success involve developing new product concepts to the point of partnering with industry or forming start-up companies with follow-on investor funding to commercialize new products envisioned from translational research efforts.

For questions, please contact Thomas Marten, Coulter Program Director, at tmarten@umich.edu or (734) 647-1680.
 
 
Call for NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award

Deadline: February 16, 2018

The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award recognizes outstanding published work from researchers furthering innovation in health care financing, delivery and organization or the implementation of health care policy.
 
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