All Articles on Innovation

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  GHRI names 10 new Group Health clinical associates

  The appointment recognizes clinical and administrative colleagues across Group Health who provide invaluable support for the organization’s research.
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  Implementation science: Learning to spread and sustain our best new ideas

  Dr. Robert Reid reflects on Group Health’s growing bank of innovation knowhow, including shared decision-making (shown here with Wanda Current and Dr. Thomas Stoll).
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  Medical Care special issue features Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

  Progress report on landmark initiative to improve care for vulnerable populations.
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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.
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  Group Health nurse midwives test innovative care model

  Nurse midwives test innovative care model: combining individual care with group support
• Triple wins for the 2014 Birnbaum Award

  Each year at the Birnbaum Lecture, Group Health Research Institute presents the Birnbaum Award to Group Health staff who’ve made extraordinary contributions to the organization’s development as a learning health care system. At the 2014 Lecture, the award will be presented to people involved in three outstanding projects, all funded by Group Health’s Partnership for Innovation.
• 2 spine surgeons are 3 times safer than 1

  A new team approach has improved safety—reducing rates of major complications by two thirds—for complex spinal reconstructive surgery for spinal deformity in adult Group Health patients at Virginia Mason Hospital & Seattle Medical Center.