All Articles on Partnership

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  GHRI names new director of research and strategic partnerships

  Nationally recognized for her work in early detection of breast cancer, Dr. Diana Buist assumes her role January 1.
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  GHRI names 10 new Group Health clinical associates

  The appointment recognizes clinical and administrative colleagues across Group Health who provide invaluable support for the organization’s research.
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  How to create and sustain clinical-research partnerships

  In The BMJ, NIH Collaboratory provides guide to success for pragmatic trials.
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  What’s next for Choosing Wisely?

  A new report called Promoting the Appropriate Use of Health Care Services sets research and policy priorities for efforts to give Americans the care they need—no more, no less. Those efforts to reduce low-value care include the Choosing Wisely® initiative.
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  Group Health nurse midwives test innovative care model

  Nurse midwives test innovative care model: combining individual care with group support
• Triple wins for the 2014 Birnbaum Award

  Each year at the Birnbaum Lecture, Group Health Research Institute presents the Birnbaum Award to Group Health staff who’ve made extraordinary contributions to the organization’s development as a learning health care system. At the 2014 Lecture, the award will be presented to people involved in three outstanding projects, all funded by Group Health’s Partnership for Innovation.
• 2 spine surgeons are 3 times safer than 1

  A new team approach has improved safety—reducing rates of major complications by two thirds—for complex spinal reconstructive surgery for spinal deformity in adult Group Health patients at Virginia Mason Hospital & Seattle Medical Center.