health care reform

Initiatives Toward Creating a True Value Equation for Brain Injury

September 4, 2015

Introduction Changes in healthcare reimbursement mechanisms will require innovation to adequately care for future brain injury populations. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 20091 included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act which provided incentives to encourage electronic health record implementation. This … [Read more...] about Initiatives Toward Creating a True Value Equation for Brain Injury

Value for Patients

August 16, 2015

By Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD and Scott Wallace, JD, MBA Value, achieving improved health outcomes for the money spent, is the goal of health care.1 When Redefining Health Care published in 2006, critics worried that value was a utopian goal and better outcomes would always require higher spending.2 While the goal of higher value is now widely accepted, a persistent question … [Read more...] about Value for Patients

BIP Expert Interview with Grahame Simpson

Professor Grahame Simpson leads the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Group at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research in Liverpool Sydney. His clinical position is Social Worker-Clinical Specialist at the Liverpool Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Liverpool Hospital. Dr Simpson has a dual professional background as an accredited social worker and registered psychologist (counselling psychology). Dr […]

TBI AND TECHNOLOGY – An Interview with Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner, PhD

Stephanie A. Kolakowsky-Hayner, PhD, CBIST, FACRM is the Chief Operating Officer at the Brain Trauma Foundation (BTF). She is also BTF’s Principal Investigator on the Brain Trauma Evidence-based Consortium (B-TEC) project funded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). Thank you Dr. Kolakowsy-Hayner for participating. Before we dive into technology, can you […]