Resources

Generating, adopting and implementing health care innovations are complex processes. The following resources are designed to inform and guide your efforts.

Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations

The Guide helps users determine if an innovation would be a good fit—or an appropriate stretch—for their health care organization by asking a series of questions. It links users to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies that illustrate how other organizations have addressed these questions. Users will be able to answer the four overarching questions the Guide poses:

Does this innovation fit?
Should we do it here?
Can we do it here?
How can we do it here?

Authors:
Cindy Brach, AHRQ; Nancy Lenfestey, Amy Roussel, Jacqueline Amoozegar, and Asta Sorenson, RTI International

Download this Guide as a PDF
(Adobe Reader is required to open or print this guide. Download a free copy.)

Read the commentary: New Guide Charts Course for Navigating Challenges of Innovation Adoption

Listen to the podcast: Health Care Innovations: A New Guide for Decision Makers

Last updated: June 29, 2009.

Improving Innovations: How to Make Data Work for You

Held April 29, 2009

Webinar Host: Judi Consalvo, AHRQ Center for Outcomes and Evidence
(Powerpoint, 1.4 mb)

Moderator: Brian Mittman, Director of the VA Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support
(Powerpoint, 756 kb)

Innovator: Michele Campbell, Christiana Care Health System
(Powerpoint, 605 kb)

Innovation: Safety Mentors Create Culture to Reduce Adverse Events and Increase Error Reporting

Safety Mentor Role Description (PDF 200 kb)

Experts:

Eugene Nelson, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Dartmouth Institute at Dartmouth Medical School
(Powerpoint, 3.7 mb)

Debra Rog, Westat
(Powerpoint, 441 kb)

All slide presentations (PDF 12 mb)

Audio file (MP3 10 mb)

Improving Innovations transcript (Word 313 kb; HTML)

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AHRQ Lunch and Learn Session: Highlighting Innovations from the Health Care Innovations Exchange

Held September 9 at the AHRQ 2008 Conference on Promoting Quality...Partnering for Change

Opening Remarks: Mary Nix, MS, Project Officer for the Health Care Innovations Exchange
Rick Rader, MD, Innovations Exchange Editorial Advisory Board Member
Director, Morton J. Kent Habilitation Center
Orange Grove Inc.

Presentations (Windows Media 16.2 mb)

Innovator: James Lee, MD, The Everett Clinic, Washington
Topic: Palliative Care
Commentary by Rick Rader, MD

Presentations (Windows Media 19.4 mb)
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Innovator: Verluria Cobbs, Program Coordinator, National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
Topic: Healthy Hair Starts with a Healthy Body
Commentary by Rick Rader, MD

Presentations (Windows Media 19.4 mb)
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Innovator: Nick Vizzoca, Business Manager, Innovation Center, Magee Women’s Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Topic: Patient and Family Centered Care Initiative
Commentary by Rick Rader, MD

Presentations (Windows Media 23.8 mb)
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Question and Answer Session (Windows Media 17.0 mb)

(Microsoft Windows Media Player software is required to open these files. Download a free copy.)

Health Care Innovations: A New Guide for Decision Makers

Cindy Brach, MPP
Sr. Health Policy Researcher
AHRQ Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets

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