Projects
The Engelberg Center is conducting a range of projects that support comprehensive health care reform. These projects and partnerships enhance the Center’s ability to implement change at all levels and bring academic and technical expertise to bear on practical solutions to state and national health care challenges.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Learning Network »
The Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Learning Network is a member-driven network that provides participating organizations the tools necessary to successfully implement accountable care. Brookings and Dartmouth have been working together since 2007 to foster the adoption of ACOs that will improve care quality and bend the cost curve.
Development and Use of Medical Devices »
Medical devices play an important and increasing role in the delivery of health care. The Engelberg Center is involved in efforts to support better tracking of medical device use and associated outcomes and to understand the drivers of medical device innovation and policy solutions to facilitate new research and development in needed areas.
Health Information Technology »
The goal of advancing the adoption and use of health IT is reflected in projects across the Engelberg Center, including one that will focus on improving chronic care with effective health IT.
Patient Medication Information »
Through a cooperative agreement, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform worked in collaboration with FDA to convene three workshops between May 2010 and February 2011 to discuss optimizing, implementing, and evaluating adoption of a single standard medication information document.
Payment and Delivery Reform »
The Dr. Richard Merkin Initiative on Payment Reform and Clinical Leadership (Merkin Initiative) was launched to ensure that further steps in health care reform reflect the best opportunities identified by clinicians to improve care and lower costs.
Quality Alliance Steering Committee (QASC) »
The High-Value Health Care Project supports the Quality Alliance Steering Committee in its efforts to better understand how well physicians, hospitals and other health care providers are performing.
The Sentinel Initiative »
The FDA Amendments of 2007 expanded FDA's authority to monitor and ensure medical product safety. As a result, FDA has undertaken a number of new initiatives, including the creation of the Sentinel Initiative.