All Articles on Care Delivery

• 3 decades on: How Group Health’s practical research changed health care

  When we say that Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) does practical research to help people like you and your family stay healthy, what do we mean? The short answer: We study what works—and what doesn't—to achieve the most important outcome for people.
• GHRI’s next 30 years: Imagine personalized medicine, empowered patients, better health

  For Group Health Research Institute’s (GHRI) 30th anniversary, we asked our faculty and staff: How will your work today influence health and health care 30 years from now, in the year 2043?
• From “pre-cancer” to back pain: The tide is turning on overtreatment

  Is American medicine finally waking up to the harm caused by overtreating common health conditions? And is Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) on track in finding practical ways to improve care while reducing harms from too much treatment?
• Innovation grant leads to improvements for diagnosing shoulder problems

  The Partnership for Innovation is a Group Health Foundation donor-funded program that allows Group Health providers and staff to test innovations with the potential to improve care, lower costs, and boost patient satisfaction.
• A tale of two ACOs: New study compares models

  When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, it called for the establishment of accountable care organizations (ACOs).
• Avoiding “voltage drop” when treatments move from research to practice

  According to Dr. Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), “There is a well-described ‘voltage drop,’ or decrease in efficacy, when we move treatments from the research setting to real world practice.”
• A ‘learning health system’ moves from idea to action

  In the United States, clinicians are struggling to provide better and more affordable health care to more people—while keeping up with new scientific developments. The idea of a “learning health system” is one proposed solution for rapidly applying the best available scientific evidence in real-time clinical practice. In the August 7 Annals of Internal Medicine, a Group Health Cooperative team describes the experience of turning this intriguing concept into action.