White House Fellow Patrick Conway leads health cost and quality projects
Helping to launch a $150 million Medicare pilot project is one of the initiatives Patrick Conway, a pediatrician and researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, has been working on since he was chosen to serve in the White House Fellows program about a year ago. Conway got Soapbox caught up on what he’s been up to since being selected for the prestigious program. His projects include working on ways to encourage the use of electronic health records by Medicare beneficiaries, directing a pilot effort to provide personal health records to Medicare beneficiaries and serving on the senior leadership team for an initiative to measure quality and price in health care and align incentives among doctors and patients to save money. He’s also helping to lead the development of strategy to measure health care quality. “The work has been exhilarating,” Conway says. “I have learned an enormous amount about how research is funded, used and translated into policy.” He’s also been able to continue research projects that were under way at Childrens, including one focused on decreasing adverse drug events in the inpatient setting. The White House Fellows Program, founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, offers first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. Writer: David HolthausSource: Dr. Patrick Conway, Children’s
Helping to launch a $150 million Medicare pilot project is one of the initiatives Patrick Conway, a pediatrician and researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, has been working on since he was chosen to serve in the White House Fellows program about a year ago. Conway got Soapbox caught up on what he’s been up to since being selected for the prestigious program.
His projects include working on ways to encourage the use of electronic health records by Medicare beneficiaries, directing a pilot effort to provide personal health records to Medicare beneficiaries and serving on the senior leadership team for an initiative to measure quality and price in health care and align incentives among doctors and patients to save money. He’s also helping to lead the development of strategy to measure health care quality.
“The work has been exhilarating,” Conway says. “I have learned an enormous amount about how research is funded, used and translated into policy.”
He’s also been able to continue research projects that were under way at Childrens, including one focused on decreasing adverse drug events in the inpatient setting. The White House Fellows Program, founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, offers first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government.
Writer: David Holthaus
Source: Dr. Patrick Conway, Children’s
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