Improving healthcare is complex.
The UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care generates knowledge and insights for diverse stakeholders seeking solutions to today’s pressing healthcare challenges
The Center is embedded within UPMC’s integrated delivery and finance system (IDFS) and convenes specially trained staff from across UPMC as well as colleagues from renowned research institutions, community groups, advocacy and trade organizations, foundations, and funding agencies to improve the ways in which healthcare is delivered to people and communities. We work through patient-centered outcomes research, comparative effectiveness studies, program evaluations, implementation science, and patient and community engagement activities to help our stakeholders understand the impact of new and existing care delivery and payment models on important healthcare outcomes within UPMC and beyond. Stay up to date on the Center’s research, program evaluation, and stakeholder engagement activities by viewing our latest news updates, results, and published materials.
Center Highlights
Center Staff Present at Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Seattle
Sarah Markwardt, Anna Patterson, and Ashley Taylor presented findings from Center programming involving integrated care interventions, meal programs for high need patient populations, and patient needs and preferences when transitioning from pediatric to adult inflammatory bowel disease care.
Center Receives Grant for Violence Intervention & Prevention (VIP) Program
With funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD), Center and Community Care teams will collaborate with community, school, and behavioral health providers in Blair County to enhance trauma-informed services through collaboration, coordinating, and training.
Knowledge Meets Practice and Policy
Our Work
The Center works through patient-centered outcomes research, comparative effectiveness studies, program evaluations, implementation science, and patient and community engagement activities to help our stakeholders understand the impact of new care delivery and payment models on important healthcare outcomes within UPMC and beyond.
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Translating Findings into Evidence-Based Practice
The Center uses data and analytics to create new knowledge for catalyzing change. We specialize in translating this knowledge into meaningful and practical resources and tools for providers, members and patients, healthcare business leaders, policymakers, and healthcare advocates to use and improve the health outcomes and care experience.
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