Advancing Technology

NEHI’s research is aimed at identifying promising but underused technologies, assessing their impact on improving care and highlighting barriers to their adoption. Prior NEHI research has focused on remote patient monitoring devices, mobile devices, tele-health, tele-ICUs, social media platforms and technologies for managing patients with chronic disease. NEHI’s analysis links successful adoption of innovative technologies to innovations in patient engagement and clinical practice, HIT infrastructure, business processes and provider culture.

Meet Our Experts

Valerie Fleishman Executive Director

Valerie Fleishman provides the strategic and operational direction for NEHI. As Executive Director, she oversees the institute’s policy research, programs, operations, fundraising and communications. Under her leadership, NEHI's programs seek to improve chronic illness care, promote disease prevention and wellness, and speed the adoption of valuable innovations across the health care system. She has authored numerous reports, articles and briefs on a wide range of health policy issues.

Ms. Fleishman joined NEHI at its founding in 2002. She has over fifteen years’ experience in health care, health policy, technology and innovation. Prior to joining NEHI, Ms. Fleishman was a director in Health and Wellness at Scient Corporation, where she led strategic consulting engagements with leading biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical clients in areas such as telemedicine, disease management, health information technology, clinical trials, and sales and marketing strategies.

Previously, Ms. Fleishman was a manager in Arthur D. Little's Global Strategy Practice. She also worked in product management and brand marketing at Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Products.

Ms. Fleishman received her bachelor of arts, cum laude, from Harvard University and her master of business administration from the Harvard Business School. In 2008, she was honored as one of Boston’s "40 under 40" by the Boston Business Journal.
Susan Dentzer President and CEO

Susan Dentzer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the NEHI, the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization composed of more than 100 stakeholder organizations from across all key sectors of health and health care. NEHI’s mission is to advance innovations that improve health, enhance the quality of health care, and achieve greater value for the money spent. With offices in Washington, DC, and Boston, Massachusetts, NEHI conducts independent, objective research and thought leadership to accelerate these innovations and bring about changes within health care and public policy.

One of the nation's most respected health and health policy thought leaders and journalists, and a frequent speaker and commentator on television and radio, including NPR, Dentzer previously served as senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to that, she was editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs, and from 1998 to 2008, she served as the on-air Health Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.

Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee, a leading humanitarian organization; a member of the board of directors of Research!America, which works to advance research to improve health; and a member of the board of directors of the Public Health Institute. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Hasting Center, an institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest. She previously served as a public member of the American Board of Medical Specialties. She serves on multiple advisory boards, including those of the Duke-Margolis Center; the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California-San Francisco; and the March of Dimes public policy advisory group.

A graduate of Dartmouth, Dentzer formerly chaired the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of Dartmouth Medical School. She and her husband, Charles Alston, have three grown children.

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Accelerated Pathways Work; Now What?

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Maximizing the Potential of Real World Evidence to Support Health Care Innovation

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Themes Healthcare Spending Payment Reform Technology Adoption

Publication Date: February 11, 2016

Delivering Medical Innovation in a Value-Based World

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Publication Date: December 2, 2015

Physicians and PDMPs: Improving the Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

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Publication Date: September 22, 2015

Real World Evidence: A New Era for Health Care Innovation

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Themes Health Reform Payment Reform Technology Adoption

Publication Date: December 17, 2014

All Payer Claims Databases: Unlocking the Potential

This Issue Brief reflects findings from the event, in addition to background research and expert interviews conducted by NEHI to explore the opportunities and lessons learned in leveraging APCDs to advance health services research.
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Themes Payment Reform Technology Adoption

Publication Date: November 13, 2014

A Bundle of Potential and Risk: Bundled Payment and its Impact on Innovation

This Issue Brief reflects findings from the event, in addition to background research and expert interviews conducted by NEHI on what this changing landscape means for patient access to innovative therapies and medical devices.
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Themes Health Behaviors Patient Engagement

Publication Date: June 24, 2014

Healthy People - Healthy Economy Annual Report Card 2014

Annual report card of Massachusetts measures around health focuses on physical activity, access to healthy food, investments in health, education, and a new emphasis on disease prevention and wellness. The report now is structured around Early Childhood, Schools, Food, Healthy Living by Design, and Public Health and Health Care. See this year's grades and how the Commonwealth is faring along these measures.
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Themes Comparative Effectiveness Research Evidence-based Medicine Health IT

Publication Date: May 22, 2014

An Evolving Landscape: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Outcomes Research and Health Care Innovation

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Themes Healthcare Spending Technology Adoption Telemedicine

Publication Date: November 18, 2013

Emerging Best Practices for Tele-ICU Care Nationally

Continuing its work in Tele-ICU research, NEHI details best practices driving scalability, diversity and competition for telemedicine in intensive care units.
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NEHI'S Impact

For Our Members

"When we began to look at Tele-ICU, NEHI’s report was tremendously valuable. To have an independent body do an objective assessment, and develop the numbers, is a very compelling source of information. And really very balanced and very useful in assessing whether this is a right fit for a particular organization. For Steward it was tremendous."-Dr. Justine Carr, Chief Medical Office, Steward Health Care

In the Media

"NEHI researchers identified more than 80 technologies that were highlighted in literature or mentioned in expert interviews that have the potential to help patients with chronic diseases, especially those in California's safety-net population. They then narrowed the list to 11 emerging technologies with the most promise in terms of clinical benefit, cost savings and adoption."-iHealthBeat