StartUPDATES: New Developments from Healthcare Startups
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PCORI Pours $80.5M Into Research On Maternal Health Inequities
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute announced that it is funding four studies focused on reducing maternal health inequities. The studies all leverage partnerships with community organizations.
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Research institute green-lights $254M for 28 studies
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the funds to studies that span a range of healthcare issues, including maternal care, suicide prevention and clinical effectiveness research in arenas like telemedicine and diabetes.
Patient-reported outcomes grow in importance for measuring value in healthcare
PROs come with some limitations, but as value in healthcare is defined, taking into account the perspective of the patient becomes crucial.
Patient engagement reaches the C-suite
In less than a decade, the chief patient officer - and similar roles with different titles - has become a key part of the healthcare industry executive team.
PCORI taps into patient experience to improve research
Patient Powered Research Networks partner academic researchers with patients, who help set the research agenda. The networks, working with patient-focused groups, recruit participants and identify concerns for potential studies.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
If you want to talk patient safety, perhaps think of patients first
Everyone's talking patient empowerment, patient safety and patient engagement, but often, patients themselves are an afterthought.
PCORI challenge awards $125K to these 8 digital tools that connect patients & researchers
A crowdfunding platform for research topics. A searchable database of patients looking to participate in research. These are two of the ideas that garnered prize money from The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute as part of its patient-researcher “matching” challenge. PCORI awarded $125,000 to companies, advocacy groups and institutions with ideas for digital tools that would […]
Obamacare’s “shared decision-making” rules take money from docs without helping patients
This week's New England Journal of Medicine contains a perspective piece by Emily Oshima Lee, M.A., and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. entitled "Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs." The original paragraph of the piece sets the to...
PCORI grant funds Ohio State researchers using Kinect for at-home stroke rehabilitation
Two-thirds of the 700,000 Americans who have a stroke each year survive and require rehabilitation. But fewer than one in three post-stroke patients undergoing physical therapy perform the at-home exercises their physical therapists recommend. A team of researchers at Ohio State University is using a $653,000 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop […]
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
PCORI is opportunity: All stakeholders agree that we need research done differently
Different participants, from different worlds, with different perspectives. But a shared vision of what we at PCORI see as the theme that ties our work together: “research done differently.”