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Organizations Represented
Wellframe!
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Open House Reps: Eric Nathanson, Gillian Guidetti Katy Weinberg (Global Health Program) About the Organization: Boston Children's Hospital is a 395-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 158,700 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here. Practicum: Operationalizing BCH Access Standards Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) is advancing its access journey to improve outcomes for patients, families, and referring providers. As a part of the journey, in 2015, the enterprise created and approved 7 standards related to patient and provider access. In 2016, BCH is planning to initiate a strategic effort to operationalize these standards for colleague participation. Under the direction of the BCH Enterprise Project Management Office, the practicum will focus on students assisting to determine reliable metrics to measure adherence to the approved standards, determine a baseline measure (current state) for each clinical foundation, and ultimately create a scalable playbook for areas to improve and measure their performance using Lean Six Sigma Methodology*. *Lean Six Sigma methodology training to be provided
!Open House Rep: Heather Ritchie About the Organization: zakipoint Health’s data analysis softwareacts as a data and services hub, connecting employers, employees, vetted healthcare providers and services, and disease management specialists to create a holistic healthcare value management system. Our tool facilitates the discovery of areas of concern, high-risk populations, early indication of chronic conditions such as the onset of diabetes, or cardiovascular diseases, and offers recommendations for interventions that address these areas of concern —and reduce costs over the long term. Practicum 1: Execute on Inbound Marketing Strategy (Digital Marketing Manager) As part of the zakipoint Health team, you will be directly shaping our product and company marketing strategy, working closely with our VPs of Product Management, Marketing, and Accounts in this early-stage company. You will be able to build out a content model and create or curate a library of content and experts to support ongoing marketing outreach through blog posts, newsletters, white papers, webinars, etc. Work will also include supporting launch of new company website which will utilize content curated and created. Practicum 2: Manage Client Implementations and Pilots (Account/Business Development Manager) Work with both Accounts and!Product VPs to support client!implementations and custom client projects. (1) build out a repeatable process and standardized materials for complex client implementations; and (2) work with product management and account management to complete 1-3 client pilots to provide value to our customers and determine what product backlog features should be developed and released to market for all customers
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Open House Rep: Jordan Jarvis About the Organization: The Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN) is a global network of emerging leaders who drive non-communicable disease (NCD) policy, research, capacity building, and social change. We believe NCDs – including cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes, as well as their shared risk factors tobacco, alcohol and junk food – are fundamental matters of social and economic justice and they present significant challenges for the global health community. By harnessing the talents and energies of the next generation of health leaders, YP-CDN is building a movement – part social, part technical – that is rooted in the evidence, experience, and insights of our members across the globe. Practicum: Working toward availability and affordability of non-communicable disease (NCD) medicines in Kenya and India We are seeking a practicum student to take on a project to evaluate the extent of inclusion of essential non-communicable disease (NCD) medicines on national essential medicines lists in Kenya and India, to help us shed light on how these are tied to national procurement and reimbursement, and how these policies impact availability and affordability of medicines. The results of this study will be instrumental for driving YP-CDN local advocacy activities in these countries, and study methods will serve as a template to apply similar studies in other countries. Furthermore, these results will also be utilized for our advocacy activities at the global level (WHO, UN).
Open House Rep: Leena Sharma About the Organization: Community Catalyst’s first priority is quality affordable health care for all. Since 1998, we have provided leadership and support to state and local consumer organizations, policymakers, and foundations working to change the health care system so it serves everyone – especially vulnerable members of society. Community Catalyst is a national non-profit advocacy organization working to build the consumer and community leadership that is required to transform the American health system. We believe that this transformation will happen when consumers are fully engaged and have an organized voice. Our staff of experienced policy analysts, attorneys, community organizers, and communications specialists works with organizations in more than 40 states. We have helped these organizations achieve wide-reaching reforms in many areas including Medicaid policy, prescription drug prices, and diversity in the health care workforce. Community Catalyst’s contributions range from policy analysis and technical assistance to managing national campaigns involving dozens of organizations. Practicum: Medicaid Funding Experiment in NY The State of NY is embarking upon an enormous experiment with its Medicaid funding called the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program. DSRIP´s purpose is to fundamentally restructure the health care delivery system by reinvesting in the Medicaid program, with the primary goal of reducing avoidable hospital use by 25% over 5 years. Up to $6.42 billion dollars are allocated to this program with payouts based upon achieving
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predefined results in system transformation, clinical management and population health. We are looking for a practicum student who would be able to immerse themselves in learning about this program and provide some analysis about how it affects consumers. A written summary of the research, in the form of a white paper, issue brief, or similar document, would be required. The specific focus of the research will depend on what information is available, what the initial findings tell us, and the specific interests of the student. With that caveat, examples of research questions we might seek to answer include: What kinds of projects are the (Performing Provider Systems) PPSs in NY selecting? Where are they located? What communities do they target?
• Which of these projects have a discernable health equity focus? What specifically does that look like?
• How do PPSs include (or not include) meaningful consumer feedback in their operations? Is there a consumer advisory council or do consumers have a role on their governing boards? If a structured role for consumers exists in a particular PPS, what is the PPS doing to be sure that role is meaningful and not tokenized?
• What kinds of social service investments are PPSs making? • Do any of the PPS projects seek to address the social and
economic determinants of health? How? • How are PPSs shifting their focus to patient-centered care? • How are PPS projects integrating behavioral health and
physical health care? • What kinds of consumer-friendly quality measures are PPSs
using? The practicum student would be working with Andi Mullin, a Senior State Advocacy Manager at Community Catalyst who provides technical assistance to Community Catalyst’s Voices for Better Health partners in New York.
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Open House Rep: Nour Sharara About the Organization: YBank was founded in 2014 by students at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. At YBank, we believe that investments in adolescent health can yield positive social and financial returns. We aim to catalyze investments in adolescent health through developing a platform for novel research and innovative financing. Our first project is working with the Rwanda Biomedical Center to develop an intervention to improve adolescent adherence to anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Practicum: Optimizing Adherence to Anti-retroviral Therapy amongst Adolescents Living with HIV in Rwanda We are looking for three graduate students to undertake their practicum with YBank from October 2015 - April 2016. The practicum will span an exciting time as we complete the pilot study, construct the DIB, refine the program and launch the RCT. The practicum will involve a trip to Rwanda in January 2015. YBank will provide support in applying for travel funding and will organize local travel and accommodation arrangements. There will be a lot of crossover between projects but we expect that each practicum student will assist in driving the development one of the following deliverables:
1. Analysis of baseline clinical and socioeconomic data from pilot study participants.
2. Analysis of qualitative data from participant, caregivers and clinic staff.
3. Development of financial model for the DIB (if student has interest or relevant skillset).
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Wellframe
Open House Reps: Trishan Panch, Melina Ward, Anshuman Chadda About the Organization: Wellframe partners with payers and providers to deliver Wellframe’s mobile-enabled care solution to extend the reach of existing care management teams to reach more patients with more frequent, higher quality touch points. Our human-driven technology enhances the therapeutic relationship between care teams and patients, fostering a connection that motivates patients to engage and self-manage their health. Practicum: Patient Engagement using Mobile Technology Wellframe is looking for practicum student(s) who can help us to implement Wellframe with these client organizations and continue to enhance our program and product offerings to boost patient engagement and improve health outcomes. All practicum projects will be supervised and tailored according to the individual learning goals of the student. Projects done by Harvard Chan School practicum students at Wellframe in the past include: 1. Improving Medication Adherence using mobile technology 2. Comparing STAR Ratings and other quality metrics across ACOs 3. Improving Health Literacy using mobile technology 4. Behavior Change Communication
Open House Rep: Stacey Drubner About the Organization: Since its founding in 1947, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts has been committed to providing adults and children with cancer with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow's cures through cutting-edge research. Read about our history, our breakthroughs, and the resources that help us support the health of our neighborhoods and communities. Practicum: TBD
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Open House Rep: Don Goldmann About the Organization: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent not-for-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading innovator, convener, partner, and driver of results in health and health care improvement worldwide. At our core, we believe everyone should get the best care and health possible. This passionate belief fuels our mission to improve health and health care. Practicum: TBD
Open House Rep: James Lin About the Organization: Peer Health Exchange’s (PHE) mission is to give teenagers the knowledge and skills that they need to make healthy decisions. Each year, PHE trains over 2,000 college student volunteers from universities across the country to teach 13-week health workshops to approximately 17,000 9th grade students attending urban high schools across the country. This year, Peer Health Exchange is piloting several innovative approaches that are designed to strengthen the delivery of its health curriculum with the ultimate goal of enhancing teens’ health knowledge, skills, and behaviors in sexual health, mental health, and substance use. Practicum: Strategies to Connect Teens to School-Based Health Clinics and Evaluating the Impact This practicum will focus on evaluating the impact of the various curriculum-enhancing and partnership strategies PHE will implement during the 2015-2016 program year on teens’ health knowledge and skills. Below is a list of innovative approaches that PHE will evaluate this year:
• PHE will implement a technology/in- person blended learning version of its skills-based health curriculum in San Francisco and Chicago. The goal of this evaluation is to determine the impact of the various curriculum-enhancing strategies PHE will implement during the 2015-2016 program year on teens’ health knowledge and skills.
• PHE will partner with schools in Washington, DC and New York City, to pilot ways to better connect adolescents to school-based health centers (SBHCs) and other health services and resources that are available in their schools and communities. The major goal of this evaluation is to assess the impact of an accessing resources-focused health curriculum on building adolescents’ efficacy to seek health support increasing their utilization of SBHCs.
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Open House Rep: Cliff Culver About the Organization: OnDeckBiotech is an angel-backed startup building an online community and related tools to facilitate connections between biotech companies and contract R&D vendors – think match.com + Dropbox for a $150B annual B2B market. Our technology launched as a private beta in February 2012, was recognized as a 2012 winner of the MassChallenge startup competition, and now represents over 10% of the industry. Practicum: Director, Market Dynamics and Corporate Strategy In this role, you will work directly with the CEO, Cliff Culver, to develop and execute a strategy to accelerate an already high-growth IT venture in the life sciences industry. Intelligence, creativity, and tenacity will be rewarded! Responsibilities
• Become an expert in the biotech and pharma R&D landscape, particularly related to market factors contributing to the rise of outsourcing
• Identify gaps, real and perceived, in availability of key services in particular markets and the OnDeck vendor community through a combination of primary and secondary research
• Develop relationships with OnDeck’s community of biotech and vendor executives to refine our understanding of opportunities to add value
• Optimize and implement key features of OnDeck’s marketing and product development roadmaps to exploit market opportunities
• Quantify the impact of updated communication strategies, as well as new features, members, and services
Open House Reps: Charlotte Atiemo, Mark Krivopal About the Organization: Kyruus was founded by a team of physicians and technologists who saw an opportunity to leverage Big Data to better measure the variation across physician practice styles, and then develop solutions to help maximize the value of every physician in the context of healthcare delivery networks. Practicum: Analysis and optimization of a credentialing/ privileging workflow The goal of the project is to develop an understanding of the credentialing and privileging process as defined by the Joint Commission and implemented by area Boston Hospitals. The student will document the workflow of personnel in the credentialing/ privileging office. They will outline the flow of information: how it is captured, what is captured, how it is verified, stored, and updated. The student will conduct focus groups to examine what, if any, challenges currently exist in granting privileges to providers. Based on the student's learning, they will write a brief proposal addressing how one aspect of the credentialing/privileging process could be enhanced through information technology and how they would go about implementing that change.
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!Open House Reps: Linda Shaughnessy, Janice Singer, Lauren Porter About the Organization: Today, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) is a nationally recognized, non-profit coalition of physicians, hospitals, health plans, purchasers, patient and public representatives, academics, and government agencies. MHQP has a well established track record as the trusted leader in Massachusetts for objective, independent health care quality measurement and reporting. Practicum: State of Patient Engagement in Massachusetts MHQP is working with its health plan, provider, and consumer stakeholders to promote patient engagement. As part of this initiative we will be conducting a research project to create a thorough landscape of patient engagement activities in Massachusetts. The results of this research will help MHQP determine common actions and best practices for patient engagement. It will also help us to determine gaps in practices, tools and policies that are needed to further patient engagement. The work of this practicum should be compiled into a recommendation of best practices and a summary report of implications for current health care policies and activities.
Open House Reps: Yuri Ostrovsky, Terry Buttaro About the Organization: momedx creates mobile applications and desktop browser software that increases patient engagement and improves efficiency of provider-side workflow after a healthcare encounter. Our unique patent-pending technology lets healthcare providers modify content and workflow without any need for technical support, with updates happening seamlessly and instantaneously for the patient. Our patient-facing tools also give patients a quick, convenient way to handle scheduling, retrieve instructions, stay in touch with their provider, and more. Whether… communicating test results, guiding patients through acute illness or chronic disease issues, trying to get patients into the next available appointment slot, or handling one of the many tasks ill-suited to portals, voicemail, or text messaging… Practicum: TBD
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!Open House Reps: Linda Shaughnessy, Janice Singer, Lauren Porter About the Organization: Today, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) is a nationally recognized, non-profit coalition of physicians, hospitals, health plans, purchasers, patient and public representatives, academics, and government agencies. MHQP has a well established track record as the trusted leader in Massachusetts for objective, independent health care quality measurement and reporting. Practicum: State of Patient Engagement in Massachusetts MHQP is working with its health plan, provider, and consumer stakeholders to promote patient engagement. As part of this initiative we will be conducting a research project to create a thorough landscape of patient engagement activities in Massachusetts. The results of this research will help MHQP determine common actions and best practices for patient engagement. It will also help us to determine gaps in practices, tools and policies that are needed to further patient engagement. The work of this practicum should be compiled into a recommendation of best practices and a summary report of implications for current health care policies and activities.
Open House Reps: Yuri Ostrovsky, Terry Buttaro About the Organization: momedx creates mobile applications and desktop browser software that increases patient engagement and improves efficiency of provider-side workflow after a healthcare encounter. Our unique patent-pending technology lets healthcare providers modify content and workflow without any need for technical support, with updates happening seamlessly and instantaneously for the patient. Our patient-facing tools also give patients a quick, convenient way to handle scheduling, retrieve instructions, stay in touch with their provider, and more. Whether… communicating test results, guiding patients through acute illness or chronic disease issues, trying to get patients into the next available appointment slot, or handling one of the many tasks ill-suited to portals, voicemail, or text messaging… Practicum: TBD
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Open House Rep: Cliff Culver About the Organization: OnDeckBiotech is an angel-backed startup building an online community and related tools to facilitate connections between biotech companies and contract R&D vendors – think match.com + Dropbox for a $150B annual B2B market. Our technology launched as a private beta in February 2012, was recognized as a 2012 winner of the MassChallenge startup competition, and now represents over 10% of the industry. Practicum: Director, Market Dynamics and Corporate Strategy In this role, you will work directly with the CEO, Cliff Culver, to develop and execute a strategy to accelerate an already high-growth IT venture in the life sciences industry. Intelligence, creativity, and tenacity will be rewarded! Responsibilities
• Become an expert in the biotech and pharma R&D landscape, particularly related to market factors contributing to the rise of outsourcing
• Identify gaps, real and perceived, in availability of key services in particular markets and the OnDeck vendor community through a combination of primary and secondary research
• Develop relationships with OnDeck’s community of biotech and vendor executives to refine our understanding of opportunities to add value
• Optimize and implement key features of OnDeck’s marketing and product development roadmaps to exploit market opportunities
• Quantify the impact of updated communication strategies, as well as new features, members, and services
Open House Reps: Charlotte Atiemo, Mark Krivopal About the Organization: Kyruus was founded by a team of physicians and technologists who saw an opportunity to leverage Big Data to better measure the variation across physician practice styles, and then develop solutions to help maximize the value of every physician in the context of healthcare delivery networks. Practicum: Analysis and optimization of a credentialing/ privileging workflow The goal of the project is to develop an understanding of the credentialing and privileging process as defined by the Joint Commission and implemented by area Boston Hospitals. The student will document the workflow of personnel in the credentialing/ privileging office. They will outline the flow of information: how it is captured, what is captured, how it is verified, stored, and updated. The student will conduct focus groups to examine what, if any, challenges currently exist in granting privileges to providers. Based on the student's learning, they will write a brief proposal addressing how one aspect of the credentialing/privileging process could be enhanced through information technology and how they would go about implementing that change.
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Open House Rep: Don Goldmann About the Organization: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent not-for-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading innovator, convener, partner, and driver of results in health and health care improvement worldwide. At our core, we believe everyone should get the best care and health possible. This passionate belief fuels our mission to improve health and health care. Practicum: TBD
Open House Rep: James Lin About the Organization: Peer Health Exchange’s (PHE) mission is to give teenagers the knowledge and skills that they need to make healthy decisions. Each year, PHE trains over 2,000 college student volunteers from universities across the country to teach 13-week health workshops to approximately 17,000 9th grade students attending urban high schools across the country. This year, Peer Health Exchange is piloting several innovative approaches that are designed to strengthen the delivery of its health curriculum with the ultimate goal of enhancing teens’ health knowledge, skills, and behaviors in sexual health, mental health, and substance use. Practicum: Strategies to Connect Teens to School-Based Health Clinics and Evaluating the Impact This practicum will focus on evaluating the impact of the various curriculum-enhancing and partnership strategies PHE will implement during the 2015-2016 program year on teens’ health knowledge and skills. Below is a list of innovative approaches that PHE will evaluate this year:
• PHE will implement a technology/in- person blended learning version of its skills-based health curriculum in San Francisco and Chicago. The goal of this evaluation is to determine the impact of the various curriculum-enhancing strategies PHE will implement during the 2015-2016 program year on teens’ health knowledge and skills.
• PHE will partner with schools in Washington, DC and New York City, to pilot ways to better connect adolescents to school-based health centers (SBHCs) and other health services and resources that are available in their schools and communities. The major goal of this evaluation is to assess the impact of an accessing resources-focused health curriculum on building adolescents’ efficacy to seek health support increasing their utilization of SBHCs.
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Wellframe
Open House Reps: Trishan Panch, Melina Ward, Anshuman Chadda About the Organization: Wellframe partners with payers and providers to deliver Wellframe’s mobile-enabled care solution to extend the reach of existing care management teams to reach more patients with more frequent, higher quality touch points. Our human-driven technology enhances the therapeutic relationship between care teams and patients, fostering a connection that motivates patients to engage and self-manage their health. Practicum: Patient Engagement using Mobile Technology Wellframe is looking for practicum student(s) who can help us to implement Wellframe with these client organizations and continue to enhance our program and product offerings to boost patient engagement and improve health outcomes. All practicum projects will be supervised and tailored according to the individual learning goals of the student. Projects done by Harvard Chan School practicum students at Wellframe in the past include: 1. Improving Medication Adherence using mobile technology 2. Comparing STAR Ratings and other quality metrics across ACOs 3. Improving Health Literacy using mobile technology 4. Behavior Change Communication
Open House Rep: Stacey Drubner About the Organization: Since its founding in 1947, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts has been committed to providing adults and children with cancer with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow's cures through cutting-edge research. Read about our history, our breakthroughs, and the resources that help us support the health of our neighborhoods and communities. Practicum: TBD
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predefined results in system transformation, clinical management and population health. We are looking for a practicum student who would be able to immerse themselves in learning about this program and provide some analysis about how it affects consumers. A written summary of the research, in the form of a white paper, issue brief, or similar document, would be required. The specific focus of the research will depend on what information is available, what the initial findings tell us, and the specific interests of the student. With that caveat, examples of research questions we might seek to answer include: What kinds of projects are the (Performing Provider Systems) PPSs in NY selecting? Where are they located? What communities do they target?
• Which of these projects have a discernable health equity focus? What specifically does that look like?
• How do PPSs include (or not include) meaningful consumer feedback in their operations? Is there a consumer advisory council or do consumers have a role on their governing boards? If a structured role for consumers exists in a particular PPS, what is the PPS doing to be sure that role is meaningful and not tokenized?
• What kinds of social service investments are PPSs making? • Do any of the PPS projects seek to address the social and
economic determinants of health? How? • How are PPSs shifting their focus to patient-centered care? • How are PPS projects integrating behavioral health and
physical health care? • What kinds of consumer-friendly quality measures are PPSs
using? The practicum student would be working with Andi Mullin, a Senior State Advocacy Manager at Community Catalyst who provides technical assistance to Community Catalyst’s Voices for Better Health partners in New York.
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Open House Rep: Nour Sharara About the Organization: YBank was founded in 2014 by students at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. At YBank, we believe that investments in adolescent health can yield positive social and financial returns. We aim to catalyze investments in adolescent health through developing a platform for novel research and innovative financing. Our first project is working with the Rwanda Biomedical Center to develop an intervention to improve adolescent adherence to anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Practicum: Optimizing Adherence to Anti-retroviral Therapy amongst Adolescents Living with HIV in Rwanda We are looking for three graduate students to undertake their practicum with YBank from October 2015 - April 2016. The practicum will span an exciting time as we complete the pilot study, construct the DIB, refine the program and launch the RCT. The practicum will involve a trip to Rwanda in January 2015. YBank will provide support in applying for travel funding and will organize local travel and accommodation arrangements. There will be a lot of crossover between projects but we expect that each practicum student will assist in driving the development one of the following deliverables:
1. Analysis of baseline clinical and socioeconomic data from pilot study participants.
2. Analysis of qualitative data from participant, caregivers and clinic staff.
3. Development of financial model for the DIB (if student has interest or relevant skillset).
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Open House Rep: Jordan Jarvis About the Organization: The Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN) is a global network of emerging leaders who drive non-communicable disease (NCD) policy, research, capacity building, and social change. We believe NCDs – including cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes, as well as their shared risk factors tobacco, alcohol and junk food – are fundamental matters of social and economic justice and they present significant challenges for the global health community. By harnessing the talents and energies of the next generation of health leaders, YP-CDN is building a movement – part social, part technical – that is rooted in the evidence, experience, and insights of our members across the globe. Practicum: Working toward availability and affordability of non-communicable disease (NCD) medicines in Kenya and India We are seeking a practicum student to take on a project to evaluate the extent of inclusion of essential non-communicable disease (NCD) medicines on national essential medicines lists in Kenya and India, to help us shed light on how these are tied to national procurement and reimbursement, and how these policies impact availability and affordability of medicines. The results of this study will be instrumental for driving YP-CDN local advocacy activities in these countries, and study methods will serve as a template to apply similar studies in other countries. Furthermore, these results will also be utilized for our advocacy activities at the global level (WHO, UN).
Open House Rep: Leena Sharma About the Organization: Community Catalyst’s first priority is quality affordable health care for all. Since 1998, we have provided leadership and support to state and local consumer organizations, policymakers, and foundations working to change the health care system so it serves everyone – especially vulnerable members of society. Community Catalyst is a national non-profit advocacy organization working to build the consumer and community leadership that is required to transform the American health system. We believe that this transformation will happen when consumers are fully engaged and have an organized voice. Our staff of experienced policy analysts, attorneys, community organizers, and communications specialists works with organizations in more than 40 states. We have helped these organizations achieve wide-reaching reforms in many areas including Medicaid policy, prescription drug prices, and diversity in the health care workforce. Community Catalyst’s contributions range from policy analysis and technical assistance to managing national campaigns involving dozens of organizations. Practicum: Medicaid Funding Experiment in NY The State of NY is embarking upon an enormous experiment with its Medicaid funding called the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program. DSRIP´s purpose is to fundamentally restructure the health care delivery system by reinvesting in the Medicaid program, with the primary goal of reducing avoidable hospital use by 25% over 5 years. Up to $6.42 billion dollars are allocated to this program with payouts based upon achieving
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Open House Reps: Eric Nathanson, Gillian Guidetti Katy Weinberg (Global Health Program) About the Organization: Boston Children's Hospital is a 395-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 158,700 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here. Practicum: Operationalizing BCH Access Standards Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) is advancing its access journey to improve outcomes for patients, families, and referring providers. As a part of the journey, in 2015, the enterprise created and approved 7 standards related to patient and provider access. In 2016, BCH is planning to initiate a strategic effort to operationalize these standards for colleague participation. Under the direction of the BCH Enterprise Project Management Office, the practicum will focus on students assisting to determine reliable metrics to measure adherence to the approved standards, determine a baseline measure (current state) for each clinical foundation, and ultimately create a scalable playbook for areas to improve and measure their performance using Lean Six Sigma Methodology*. *Lean Six Sigma methodology training to be provided
!Open House Rep: Heather Ritchie About the Organization: zakipoint Health’s data analysis softwareacts as a data and services hub, connecting employers, employees, vetted healthcare providers and services, and disease management specialists to create a holistic healthcare value management system. Our tool facilitates the discovery of areas of concern, high-risk populations, early indication of chronic conditions such as the onset of diabetes, or cardiovascular diseases, and offers recommendations for interventions that address these areas of concern —and reduce costs over the long term. Practicum 1: Execute on Inbound Marketing Strategy (Digital Marketing Manager) As part of the zakipoint Health team, you will be directly shaping our product and company marketing strategy, working closely with our VPs of Product Management, Marketing, and Accounts in this early-stage company. You will be able to build out a content model and create or curate a library of content and experts to support ongoing marketing outreach through blog posts, newsletters, white papers, webinars, etc. Work will also include supporting launch of new company website which will utilize content curated and created. Practicum 2: Manage Client Implementations and Pilots (Account/Business Development Manager) Work with both Accounts and!Product VPs to support client!implementations and custom client projects. (1) build out a repeatable process and standardized materials for complex client implementations; and (2) work with product management and account management to complete 1-3 client pilots to provide value to our customers and determine what product backlog features should be developed and released to market for all customers
