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- People & Programs—August 2014
Biomedical informatics researcher Dr. Andrea Hartzler to join GHRI. Group Health & GHRI well represented among Seattle’s ‘Top Docs’. ACT study makes a strong showing at international Alzheimer’s conference. With support from AcademyHealth, Dr. Buist charts a course toward higher-value care.
- Recently using some birth control pills may raise breast cancer risk
Women who recently used birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen and a few other formulations had an increased risk for breast cancer, whereas women using some other formulations did not, according to a report about Group Health patients published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
What’s next for Choosing Wisely?A new report called Promoting the Appropriate Use of Health Care Services sets research and policy priorities for efforts to give Americans the care they need—no more, no less. Those efforts to reduce low-value care include the Choosing Wisely® initiative.
- Health care chiefs weigh the impact of patient-powered research
It only makes sense for health researchers to study questions that most matter to patients, right? But too often, research agendas are set by scientists’ academic interests or the potential for profits. And in many cases, research is conducted in experimental settings that don’t reflect patients’ actual experience of health and health care.
- People & Programs—July 2014
Dr. Ludman helps spread phone psychotherapy in Germany, Switzerland. Drs. Larson, Psaty, & Wagner among Thomson Reuters’ top scientific minds. Data analytics & healthy aging: Dr. Larson shares expertise on both. Dr. Dublin answers FDA’s call on studying medication safety in pregnancy.
Group Health nurse midwives test innovative care modelNurse midwives test innovative care model: combining individual care with group support
How to prevent disparities in colon cancer screeningGroup Health, Kaiser Permanente researchers in JAMA Internal Medicine
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