Foci of the Department's work:
The work of the Department is
consistent with the themes of health services research: health care delivery,
organization, and financing. The thematic areas of the Department’s work are:
Financing and efficiency of
health care services in rural areas with projects focused on:
hospital finance
payment for physician services
financing care for the uninsured and underinsured
financing long term care
Delivering health care in rural places with projects focused on:
tracking developments in a set of sentinel communities
developing criteria to identify rural areas at risk of not having services
providing services in areas undergoing change in population demographics
developing models to forecast needs for health care professionals
assessing the economic impacts of health care providers in rural places
Applying information technology in the management and delivery of rural health services:
use of information technology by networks of rural providers
actions of health care providers to meet new requirements related to the use of information
economic evaluation of new technologies
use of information by consumers of health care services
Improving the quality of services delivered by focusing on:
outcomes of care in various clinical settings, including UNMC/NHS
improving quality of care in rural hospitals, especially critical access hospitals
assessing quality of care in various alternative arrangements for assuring access to services in rural areas
Improving access to care among underserved populations, including projects focused on:
effects of new populations on the health care delivery system
gaining access to care for the uninsured
assessing the consequences of inadequate access to services
Improving developments in health care policy in the U.S. (including in the state of Nebraska), by analyzing:
effects of proposals to change the Medicare program
effects of changes in public and private payment policies on rural health care delivery
effects of changes in the population and insurance coverage on public policies
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