Publications

Waste and Inefficiency in Health Care

Improving Patient Medication Adherence: Key Issues and Challenges in the Daily Practice of Medicine

Publication Date: January 31, 2013
This issue brief discusses how evolving models of medication management are key to bringing improved medication adherence, and thus improved patient outcomes and reduced costs, into the daily practice of medicine.

Thinking Outside the Pillbox: Improving Medication Adherence and Reducing Readmissions

Publication Date: October 19, 2012
An issue brief highlighting successful new models of advanced discharge planning and transitional care that have medication management at their core.

Striving for High Value Health Care: Lessons Learned in California

Publication Date: September 4, 2012
These California-specific case interviews highlight important wins for reducing avoidable health care spending and serve as evidence for a national debate centered on identifying cost-cutting innovations that can be scaled and replicated.

Health Care Leader's Guide to High Value Health Care

Publication Date: December 16, 2011
The Health Care Leader's Guide to High Value Health Care provides data to identify where costs can be reduced and offers recommendations for actionable solutions. It also includes real world success stories of health care professionals making important improvements in their organizations. We encourage you to use these tools to educate colleagues, and identify and implement successful solutions to the very real problem of health care waste in your own organizations and communities.

Roadmap to Improved Patient Medication Adherence

Publication Date: September 22, 2011
The Roadmap to Improved Patient Medication Adherence outlines a system-wide strategy for making improved adherence an integral part of health reform. The Roadmap, developed by NEHI in collaboration with a broad range of adherence stakeholders, identifies six "golden opportunities" for improving adherence by harnessing and coordinating major policies in health reform with ongoing trends in the health care marketplace.

From Evidence to Practice: A National Strategy for CER Dissemination

Publication Date: February 17, 2011
A White Paper

Medication Adherence and Care Teams: A Call for Demonstration Projects

Publication Date: September 23, 2010
This report explains why care teams can help improve medication adherence and calls for more research on how to best use care teams in a wide variety of clinical settings.

From Evidence to Practice: Making CER Findings Work for Providers and Patients

Publication Date: September 1, 2010
This issue brief identifies a number of major factors found by NEHI research that could influence the creation of a coherent and effective CER dissemination strategy.

A Matter of Urgency: Reducing Emergency Department Overuse

Publication Date: March 1, 2010
A NEHI Research Brief on the topic of emergency department overuse.

Remaking Primary Care: A Framework for the Future

Publication Date: January 20, 2010
This report delves into the basis of the current crisis in primary care and offers solutions for the future.

Thinking Outside the Pillbox: A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease

Publication Date: August 12, 2009
In its new research brief, "Thinking Outside the Pillbox," NEHI addresses the root causes of poor patient medication adherence - a significant contributor to overall health care waste - and offers promising solutions to improve adherence, particularly among chronic disease patients.

Remaking Primary Care: From Crisis to Opportunity

Publication Date: May 26, 2009
This report focuses on the factors contributing to the failure of our current primary care system and offers innovative approaches to reform its design and delivery.

Balancing Act: Comparative Effectiveness Research and Innovation in U.S. Health Care

Publication Date: April 20, 2009
This white paper, representing the views of a broad range of health care stakeholders, provides a first-of-its-kind framework for designing and implementing a federal CER program that will sustain the unique dynamics of innovation in health care.

Emergency Department Overuse Backgrounder

Publication Date: August 1, 2008
A summary of NEHI's current research project to examine the causes of and potential solutions for the overuse of emergency departments for non-urgent conditions.

The Wasteland of Health Care

Publication Date: July 29, 2008
This graphic displays the most significant areas of waste in health care as identified by NEHI's research in this area.

Comparative Effectiveness Research

Publication Date: July 21, 2008
A summary of NEHI's work in comparative effectiveness research.

Improving Physician Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines

Publication Date: February 25, 2008
To address the variance between agreed-upon standards of care and actual care provided by strengthening physician guidelines, we must overcome key barriers to adherence.

Waste and Inefficiency in the U.S. Health Care System - Clinical Care

Publication Date: February 25, 2008
Waste is pervasive in our health care system, and must be eliminated by implementing key policy solutions.

How Many More Studies Will It Take?

Publication Date: February 25, 2008
Published with a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, this compendium presents compelling evidence of waste in health care, with a RAND annotated bibliography and a NEHI compendium of the 460 most reliable sources on waste and inefficiency in health care from 1998 to 2006.

 

On January 18, 2011, we changed the name of our organization to NEHI. All publications issued prior to that date contain our previous name, New England Healthcare Institute.