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iCollaborative - The iCollaborative is a service provided by AAMC's MedEdPORTAL that features innovative approaches to medical education, health care delivery, and research. This website provides access to data and publications.
Idaho Department of Health & Welfare - Access health statistics and health-related information.
Illinois Department of Public Health: Health Statistics - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) collects and evaluates thousands of health statistics to measure progress toward state and national health objectives. These numbers also provide the basis for developing and implementing public health strategies for disease prevention and health promotion.
Impact Case Studies and Knowledge Transfer Case Studies: Comparative Effectiveness - Link to comparative effectiveness portfolios designed to provide health care decisionmakers--including patients, clinicians, purchasers, and policymakers-with up-to-date, evidence-based information about their treatment options to make informed health care decisions.
The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on the U.S. Health Care System - Held on 2/24/2010 at Rice University, experts discussed comparative effectiveness research and U.S. health care reform.
Impact of the Medicaid Expansion for Low-Income Communities of Color Across States - Included here are four documents: an overview brief, and reports on the effects of Medicaid expansion on Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, and Hispanic populations.
Implementation Research Institute (IRI) Washington University in St. Louis - The IRI was established to advance the field of implementation science in mental health by enhancing the career development of early to mid-career investigators.
Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature - This 2005 monograph summarizes findings from the review of the research literature on implementation. The review process began by identifying literature reporting any efforts to collect data on attempts to implement practices or programs in any domain, including agriculture, business, child welfare, engineering, health, juvenile justice, manufacturing, medicine, mental health, nursing and social services.
Implementation Science (Biomed Central) - Implementation Science is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that aims to publish research relevant to the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare in both clinical and policy contexts.
Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods and Impact - Access June 9, 2009 Forum transcript, event materials, and video from this site.
Implementing New Private Health Insurance Market Rules - This issue brief explains the key provisions in three proposed federal regulations related to the private insurance market under the Affordable Care Act.
Implementing the Affordable Care Act: State Action on Early Market Reforms - This issue brief examines new state action on a subset of these "early market reforms." The analysis finds that 49 states and the District of Columbia have passed new legislation, issued a new regulation, issued new subregulatory guidance, or are actively reviewing insurer policy forms for compliance with these protections. These findings suggest that states have required or encouraged compliance with the early market reforms, and that efforts to understand how states are responding cannot focus on legislative action alone.
Implementing the Affordable Care Act: State Action on the 2014 Market Reforms - A new Issue Brief and interactive map displays the current status of ACA state implementation within the U.S.
Improvement Science Research Network - A NIH-supported improvement research network. The ISRN's primary mission is to accelerate interprofessional improvement science in a systems context across multiple hospital sites.
Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States - This report, the second in a series, examines children's access to mental health services within the light of the Affordable Care Act.
Improving Access to Essential Medicines Through Public-Private Partnerships - This June 2011 report asks why products like Coca-Cola can reach remote destinations while essential medicines like antibiotics cannot always be found.
Improving Accuracy Of Quality Measurement Via Electronic Health Records - A new study demonstrates ways in which quality measurement from EHRs can be improved.
Improving Health and Reducing Premature Mortality in People with Severe Mental Illness (R01) - This funding opportunity will support innovative services interventions designed to reduce the prevalence and magnitude of common modifiable health risk factors related to shortened lifespan in adults with severe mental illness.
Income Dynamics and Coverage Transitions of Health Reform Expansion Populations - Slides and audio are available from this November 2012 webinar, which discusses the income dynamics among health reform expansion populations moving into, out of, and between coverage eligibility categories defined by the Affordable Care Act.
Indian Health Service (IHS) - Part of DHHS, IHS provides health services to 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives of more than 560 federally recognized tribes. Has supported health services research projects such as cost-effectiveness studies of rural telemedicine consultation services, the effects of fluoridation, etc.
Indian Health Services (IHS) Divisions of Grants Management - Grant opportunities within the IHS.
Indiana Child Health Services Research - Indiana Children's Health Services Research strives to improve the health and healthcare of children by developing and applying the best scientific evidence and methods in health services research and informatics.
Indiana State Department of Health: Reports and Statistics - Access reports and statistics on various health topics.
Informatics for Consumer Health - InformaticsForConsumerHealth.org involves stakeholders from various sectors-commercial IT, government, health care, education and research, advocacy-exchanging ideas and resources to bridge information technology and health care with the goal of improving behavioral support for all consumers. Access news and reports, articles, funding announcements, and events.
Information on the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act - This site provides information on meaningful use and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
Informed Consent and Authorization - Section of AHRQ toolkit offers some strategies for those who seek to serve as change agents in their organizations to improve the informed consent and authorization process.
Infrastructure Development Program in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) (R24)
Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research - Congress, in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, tasked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to recommend national priorities for research questions to be addressed by CER and supported by ARRA funds. These are the 100 priority topics for comparative effectiveness research. The list provides a starting point for what should be a sustained effort to conduct comparative effectiveness research. As this research initiative progresses, the priorities will evolve as well.
Injury Prevention & Control: Data & Statistics (WISQARS) - WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data
The Innovation Center: How Much Can It Improve Quality and Reduce Costs - and How Quickly? - The new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) seeks to test new health care payment and service delivery models that can potentially enhance quality of care for beneficiaries while reducing costs. How is the agency planning to administer its $10 billion in funding? What early projects is the center undertaking? Is there private sector evidence that its goals can be achieved? What will happen to existing innovations now being rolled out by providers and hospitals? This July 2011 briefing addressed these and related questions.
Inquiry - The journal of health care organization, provision and financing.
Insitute of Health Economics - The IHE strives to assist decision makers in health policy and practice with the results from economic evaluations, costing and cost-effectiveness analyses, and with syntheses of findings from research in health technology assessment.
Institute 2011: The Road Map for Health Care Reform Implementation Continues, June 15-17 - Institute 2011 provided insight and answers at both a global and a day-to-day level.
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) - Mission is to lead innovation in comparative effectiveness research through methods that integrate considerations of clinical benefit and economic value.
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement - Non-profit organization that brings together diverse groups to transform the health care system so that it delivers patient-centered and value-driven care.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - IHI focuses on motivating and building the will for change; identifying and testing new models of care in partnership with both patients and health care professionals; and ensuring the broadest possible adoption of best practices and effective innovations.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Map - This map is a free, open resource for those interested in sharing IHI's mission of improving health care. This includes access to various "How To Guides," for example, prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia; prevent surgical site infection; prevent adverse drug events, etc.
Institute of Medicine - The IOM is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public. The IOM asks and answers the nation's most pressing questions about health and health care.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) - Minority Health - Links to current projects, events, and reports concerning minority health as well as information about the work IOM has done in the area of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) Current and Recent Activities - Download PDF of current and recent IOM activities.
Institute of Medicine - Aging
Insurance Education - Current, comprehensive, and economically priced self-study courses for professionals seeking to advance their understanding of the health insurance industry.
Insuring the Future: Current Trends in Health Coverage and the Effects of Implementing the Affordable Care Act - This report examines the current state of insurance coverage in the United States and its financial and health implications for working-age adults.
Integrated Health Interview Series - NHIS provides invaluable data on health behaviors, conditions, and care. With thousands of variables, large sample size, and sampling frame representative of the non-institutionalized civilian population, NHIS is also a potential tool for teaching statistics.
Integrated Health Interview Series
Integrating Comparative Effectiveness Research into Everyday Practice (10/12/2010) - This Webcast highlights AHRQ's existing patient-centered outcomes research and ways that it can be used by clinicians for day-to-day decisionmaking in their practices.
Integrative Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence - This 2004 report is an informal review of the literature on integrating qualitative and quantitative forms of evidence. The report seeks to address five related questions: 1. What is the role of qualitative approaches in traditional trials and experimental studies? 2. At what point in the development of a field of knowledge is it appropriate to pull qualitative and quantitative learning together? 3. What constitutes good evidence from qualitative studies? 4. Are there hierarchies of evidence within the different types of qualitative investigation? 5. How may the findings of qualitative and quantitative research be synthesised?
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations - On March 22, 2013, the Committee issued this interim report, to provide observations for Congress as it considers Medicare reform.
International Association of Privacy Professionals - This organization focuses on the global information privacy community, to assist them in managing and protecting their data.
International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare, 5-8 April 2011 - The Forum has as its mission to support the movement for health care improvement.
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) - Formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a high standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and assist young researchers at the start of their careers.
International Health Economics Association Annual Conference - Information on the annual conference of the iHEA.
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) - Not-for-profit association that develops and promotes use of SNOMED CT to support safe and effective health information exchange. SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology and is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology in the world.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care - Publishes papers in all disciplines related to the quality and safety of health care, including health services research, health care evaluation, technology assessment, health economics, utilization review, cost containment, nursing care research, and clinical research.
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care - Serves as a forum for the wide range of health policy makers and professionals interested in the economic, social, ethical, medical and public health implications of health technology. It covers the development, evaluation, diffusion and use of health technology, as well as its impact on the organization and management of health care systems and public health. In addition to general essays and research reports, regular columns on technology assessment reports and thematic sections are published.
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) - Independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989. IMIA plays a major global role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of healthcare and research in medical, health and bio informatics.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 163 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.
International Profiles of Health Care Systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States - This document presents comparative analyses of health systems in 15 countries. Topics included are: health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations.
International Programs - Links to interational statistical agencies.
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) - ISPOR promotes the science of pharmacoeconomics (health economics) and outcomes research (the scientific discipline that evaluates the effect of health care interventions on patient well-being including clinical outcomes, economic outcomes, and patient-reported outcomes) and facilitates the translation of this research into useful information for healthcare decision-makers to ensure that society allocates scarce health care resources wisely, fairly and efficiently. ISPOR embraces all health technology assessors, government health technology regulators & payers of health care including governments, insurers, and other health care payers who use health care outcomes research information in their decisions.
International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) - International membership organization including leading quality health care providers and agencies in just under 70 countries. The ISQua Secretariat is located in Australia.
Internationl Forum on Quality and & Safety in Healthcare, 17-20 April 2012, Le Palais des Congrès de Paris, France - There are 9 streams for the 17th annual Forum in 2012, these will capture the current international priorites in quality improvement and patient safety.
Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice - This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice.
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Introduction to Methods for Health Service Research and Evaluation - This open-access course is an introduction to basic methods for undertaking research and program evaluation within health services organizations and systems
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research supports researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving health and health care policy. The program provides one of the few funding opportunities in the United States for investigator-initiated projects that are broad in scope, innovative in approach, and have national policy relevance.
Investing in Health IT: What the U.S. and Other Countries Are Learning: 10/29/10 Podcast - This briefing addressed questions such as: What have the U.S. and other countries learned from their experience with health IT? How is the adoption of this technology progressing in the U.S. across the many different types of health care settings? How are we developing standards for "meaningful use" of health IT?
IOM Report: An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention - This report proposes a framework to assess the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies.
Iowa Department of Public Health: Bureau of Health Statistics - Download statistics and briefs in PDF format.
ISPOR 14th Annual European Congress, November 5-8, 2011, Madrid - The meeting theme is rational health care decision making in challenging economic times.
ISPOR 17th Annual International Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 2-6, 2012 - The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research will hold its 17th annual meeting June 2-6, 2012. Topics will include health care reform and comparative effectiveness research.
ISPOR 18th Annual International Meeting - The theme of this meeting is "Patient-Centered Outcomes: Focusing on the Patient". It will be held in New Orleans from May 18 to May 22, 2013
ISPOR Good Outcomes Research Practices & Issues Index - Consensus documents on key outcomes research methods. ISPOR's role as a scientific educational organization is to assist in the development and dissemination of good practices in health outcomes research
ISPOR Good Outcomes Research Practices & Issues Index/Research Tools - Consensus documents on key outcomes research methods. ISPOR convenes experts in outcomes research to develop guidance for researchers on contentious outcomes research methods.
ISPOR International Digest of Databases - Electronic index (Digest) of key attributes of health care databases around the world available at the ISPOR website, which is accessible to the public. The Digest is a compendium of 194 databases. These databases list key attributes of health care data from around the world.
ISPOR Outcomes Research Digest - Electronic database of research papers presented at ISPOR Annual International Meetings, ISPOR Annual European Congresses, ISPOR Asia-Pacific Conferences, and ISPOR Latin America Conferences from 1998 to date.
ISQua's 28thInternational Conference, Patient Safety: Sustaining the Global Momentum, using e-health, health technology, education, research and policy,14-17 September, 2011 - This conference will take place in Hong Kong, China.
Issue Briefs for Older Americans - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Administration on Aging (AoA) commissioned a series of Issue Briefs to address behavioral health issues that are important to older Americans. The Issue Briefs identify key information and opportunities for action that can improve the lives of older people. The first brief offers an overview of issues, facts, evidence-based programs and practices, partnering opportunities, financing and other resources.

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