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Health information technology, electronic medical records, and modern surgical procedures that enable faster recovery are but three examples of how technology is changing the health care sector. RAND research has explored many facets of health care technology and advised policymakers and practitioners on best practices for cost savings and improved patient outcomes.

Commentary

Mobile Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay. How Do We Protect Privacy?

Aug 20, 2020

Mobile phone surveillance can augment public health interventions to manage COVID-19 and might help countries prepare for the next outbreak. But these programs collect sensitive health and behavior data. That raises significant risks to personal privacy and civil liberties.
Essay

What Telemedicine Needs to Succeed Beyond COVID-19

Sep 2, 2020

Virtual doctor visits have become part of the new normal. Since the first COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, Medicare and other payers have relaxed their rules to make it easier for patients to connect to care. But without permanent policy changes, physicians may not continue telemedicine services.

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Journal Article

Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition–heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial

To evaluate the effectiveness of a care transition intervention using remote patient monitoring in reducing 180-day all-cause readmissions among a broad population of older adults hospitalized with HF.

Feb 18, 2016
Report

Developing a Strategic Program for Chilean Health Information Technology: Environmental Scan and Key Informant Interviews

This report assesses the current state of health information technology adoption and implementation in Chile, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in the coming years.

Feb 11, 2016
Report

Medical Device Innovation in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

Changing incentives in the health care sector and the move to value-based payment models will force device manufacturers to redirect investments from the spectacular toward the prudent—lower cost, less sexy.

Feb 8, 2016
Commentary

A Unique Identifier Could Protect Patient Privacy

The policy debate about unique patient identifier numbers should determine the best approach for reconciling two goals: optimizing the privacy and security of health information and making record matching as close to perfect as is practical.

Feb 3, 2016
Journal Article

Effectiveness of an mHealth Intervention to Improve the Cardiometabolic Profile of People with Prehypertension in Low-Resource Urban Settings in Latin America: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Mobile phone-based health interventions (mHealth) have been shown to help promote weight loss and increase physical activity and are an attractive approach for health-care systems with limited resources.

Jan 18, 2016
News Release

Significant Costs Involved with Converting Primary Care Medical Practices to 'Medical Homes'

While there are financial incentives available to primary care practices that transform into medical homes, such investments might be especially challenging for small practices and those not associated with a larger health network. The costs include one-time startup costs and ongoing costs, the greatest being adding new staff to help better coordinate patients' care.

Jan 11, 2016
Journal Article

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Adult Domain Framework Using Item Response Theory Scores

We used confirmatory factor analyses to evaluate the fit of the hypothesized framework for the Patient reported Outcomes Measurement Information System from data collected from a large sample.

Jan 5, 2016
Report

National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) Phase I: Final Evaluation Report

PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, seeks to conduct clinical trials and observational research quickly and at low cost. This report contains the results of a formative evaluation of PCORnet's implementation phase.

Dec 31, 2015
Report

The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme: A review of progress and contributions to innovation in healthcare technologies: Extended summary

The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme supports the development of innovative medical technologies. Rand Europe evaluated the programme to identify its outputs and impacts. This report is an extended summary of the full report.

Dec 11, 2015
Journal Article

Access and Quality of Care in Direct-To-Consumer Telemedicine

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) telemedicine serves millions of patients; however, there is limited research on the care provided.

Nov 20, 2015
Brochure

Focus on Health Information Technology

For nearly a decade, RAND researchers have studied how health information technology (HIT) stands to change health care.

Nov 18, 2015
Journal Article

Radiologists' Perceptions of Computerized Decision Support: A Focus Group Study from the Medicare Imaging Demonstration Project

The purpose of this study was to discern radiologists' perceptions regarding the implementation of a decision support system intervention as part of the Medicare Imaging Demonstration project.

Nov 6, 2015
Report

Improving Hospital Efficiency Through Data-Driven Management: A Case Study of Health First, Florida

This report presents a case study of how one health system addressed resource challenges by using Lean thinking (focusing on process improvement, affecting both structural components and operational processes) enabled by information technology.

Oct 22, 2015
Journal Article

Training Substance Use Disorder Counselors in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Development and Initial Exploration of an Online Training Program

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Oct 7, 2015
Research Brief

Analysing the economic impact of the Health Technology Assessment programme

RAND Europe analysis of the economic benefits arising from a sample of projects funded through the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme, and case studies exploring these impacts in more detail.

Sep 18, 2015
Report

Returns on research funded under the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme: Economic analysis and case studies

The Department of Health (England) requested that RAND Europe conduct an economic analysis and a number of case studies looking at the potential economic benefits of a sample of HTA case studies.

Sep 18, 2015
Commentary

Paying for Telemedicine

Telehealth, delivering health services and information via technology, holds great promise. But more information is needed to determine what works and what doesn't.

Sep 3, 2015
Research Brief

The impact of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, 2003–13: a multi-method evaluation

We assessed the impact of the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme on academic research, health policy, clinical practice, patient health and economic outcomes, and made recommendations for the future.

Sep 1, 2015
Journal Article

Taking Patients' Narratives About Clinicians from Anecdote to Science

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Aug 28, 2015
Research Brief

Privacy of health records: Europeans' preferences on electronic health data storage and sharing

RAND Europe has collected evidence from one of the largest-ever surveys of citizens' views across Europe on security, surveillance and privacy issues in three scenarios: train travel, internet use and (described here) storage of health records.

Aug 20, 2015

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