By Sharon Arnold PhD – In his groundbreaking 2000 book, the author Malcolm Gladwell famously defined “The Tipping Point” as “the moment at which big changes follow seemingly small events.”
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By Sharon Arnold PhD – The architecture of health care delivery in America is undergoing significant changes. Networks of private hospitals, clinics, and medical practices have consolidated in ways that are impacting the care patients receive on a day-to-day basis.
By Sharon Arnold PhD – AHRQ maintains a steadfast commitment to developing and analyzing data and information to support improvements in the quality and safety of the Nation’s health care.
By Sharon Arnold PhD – As part of AHRQ’s mission to improve the quality and safety of health care, the Agency is actively exploring how its work can help transform health care organizations into learning health care systems.
By Sharon Arnold PhD – While attending the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) 2017 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., I joined AHRQ colleagues in a presentation, “Moving Evidence Into Practice: An Update from AHRQ.”
By Sharon Arnold PhD – Determining whether digitized information’s enormous power can improve patient care is at the root of many serious conversations about health information technology (IT).
By Sharon B. Arnold PhD – Patient-centered outcomes research can be an important tool in making informed health care decisions. PCOR compares the impact of two or more preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or health care delivery approaches on health outcomes, focusing on those that are meaningful to patients.
By Sharon Arnold PhD – Much has been written about the importance of finding alternatives to the volume-increasing incentives of traditional fee for service payments and one solution or change will not create an instant results. However, there is a continuum between pure fee for service and pure capitation.