Proposals for 'Higher Value' Healthcare System
The Donaghue Foundation envisions a world in which continual improvement in people’s health as a result of research is converted into practical benefit.
To help advance this mission, the foundation welcomes applications for its 2021 Greater Value Portfolio program. The goal of the program is to test approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the health care they provide to their patients and communities.
To that end, grants of up to $400,000 over up to two years will be awarded in support of promising approaches aimed at creating a higher value healthcare system. The proposed research should be focused on developing actionable solutions to one or more of the symptoms of low-value health care: high and rising costs; unwarranted variation in prices and/or quality; unaffordable cost-of-care burden on patients and families; and/or lack of transparency in both price and outcomes.
Eligible approaches include testing models of care, coverage, or system change that seek to improve value by addressing one or more of the symptoms of low value; reducing routine treatments, tests, and screenings for patients for whom the potential harms (including financial harm) outweigh potential benefits; providing tools to help consumers make decisions about their healthcare based on value, including the cost of care to patients (in addition to other patient-centered factors); promoting conversations between patients and their clinicians and care teams about preferences and trade-offs related to alternative treatment options and/or out of pocket cost burden to patients and families; and/or testing interventions geared to reducing racial and ethnic disparities through the provision of higher value healthcare.
Eligible applicants include investigators with a PhD (or equivalent) at a tax-exempt research institution in the United States. In order to receive an award, the applicant must partner with an organization that delivers healthcare services or be a researcher based in a research unit embedded in a healthcare organization.
Letters of Intent are due April 26. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application by July 30, 2021.
See the Donaghue Foundation website for complete program guidelines, application instructions, an FAQ, and information about previous recipients.
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