Association of Health Care Journalists Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance

Association of Health Care Journalists Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance The AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance are intended to support U.S.-based applicants who have interesting projects in mind for their news outlets that hold the promise of informing and educating the public. Applicants should have a working knowledge of the topic and a good idea of what it will take to complete the project. The project could take several forms. The fellow could choose to evaluate a local health system or a specific local or regional program or an aspect of the national system. An approach might be to compare two health care systems addressing a common problem — access to care for poor and uninsured patients, for example — to see why one community is performing better and why. Fellows pursuing projects such as these would want to consider public data and relevant academic studies in addition to interviews with health care and civic leaders, patients and others. Possible topic areas: Efforts to improve patient safety or quality of care or to extend the health care system into underserved communities The impact of Accountable Care Organizations on patient care and satisfaction How payment structures — shared risk, fee for service, employed clinicians vs. independent contractors — affect health care delivery The effectiveness of new approaches to old diseases or evidence-based medicine Health system rede...

Source: ScanGrants feed - June 28, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Association of Health Care Journalists Source Type: funding