Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

March 12, 2018
Surgeon general to address opioid crisis, health partnerships

As opioid addiction and overdoses continue to take a toll, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, who has personal and professional experience on the issue, will speak at U-M on March 22.
January 31, 2018
Gupta family assists U-M’s health communication ‘hackathon’

Alumnus Sanjay Gupta and his wife, Rebecca, have teamed up with U-M to support an effort to bring new ideas and tools to health communication.
January 30, 2018
Report recaps Poverty Solutions’ first year, lists 2018 projects

New partnerships, programs to boost job opportunities, and raising public awareness about low-income families highlight U-M’s first-year initiative to prevent and alleviate poverty.
December 11, 2017
Study looks at work status of those in state’s Medicaid expansion

Nearly half of the people who enrolled in Medicaid after it expanded in Michigan have jobs, and another 11 percent can’t work, likely due to serious physical or mental health conditions, a U-M study finds.
November 13, 2017
U-M study questions ACA effort to reduce hospital readmissions

A federal program shown to reduce hospital readmissions may not have been as successful as it appears, say researchers from U-M’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and the School of Public Health.
May 21, 2016
Incentives paid to improve health care have little impact in U.K.

The world’s largest primary pay-for-performance program designed to improve patient health care and outcomes has failed to save additional lives, a U-M researcher says.
July 7, 2015
Expanding state Medicaid stems growth of uncompensated care

New research from U-M shows that Connecticut’s Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has led to a decrease in uncompensated medical care.
March 17, 2015
U-M faculty member gives Senate testimony on health IT

A U-M assistant professor testified before a U.S. Senate panel Tuesday about investing in health care information technology.
January 23, 2015
First residential MOOC for U-M students focuses on health care

The university’s first massive open online course aimed solely at U-M students focuses on “Understanding and Improving U.S. Healthcare.”
December 11, 2014
U-M team to study how well state’s Medicaid expansion plan is working

U-M researchers will study how well Michigan’s new Medicaid health insurance option works, and will advise state government on how well it’s living up to what lawmakers intended.