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  Quitting smoking? Gather your team for support.

  Let’s face it. Quitting smoking can be pretty rough. If you’re ready, one of the best strategies is this: Don’t go it alone. Having a support system could make all the difference.
• Group Health & UW showcase analytic methods built for the real world

  Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials—which collect data on carefully selected populations under ideal conditions—pragmatic clinical trials take place in everyday settings and take advantage of existing data sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs). These methods will take center stage this September at the First Seattle Symposium on Health Care Data Analytics.
• 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.
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  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.