Our next @altarum_shss blog by @um_vbid's Christina M. Cutter, Nicholas L. Berlin, and A. Mark Fendrick capitalizes on the natural experiment afforded by the #COVID19 #pandemic and proposes a value-driven #telehealth policy and research agenda. bit.ly/2GrzeA5

U-M ACRU RAND Abir @NCSPMichigan Christina Cutter MD MSc On NPR this morning COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Surging. Where Are Hospitals Reaching Capacity? npr.org/sections/healt… U-M IHPI UMich EM Residency Michigan Medicine Robert Neumar

Improve Emergency Care? Pandemic Helps Point the Way nytimes.com/2020/11/23/ups… by Austin Frakt See also this excellent telemedicine brief by Christina Cutter MD MSc Nicholas L. Berlin MD, MPH, MS & Mark Fendrick UM V-BID Center healthaffairs.org/topic/ss150

Galvanizing stakeholders around a value-based “new normal” for #telehealth based in research. It's a momentous opportunity to ensure telehealth's lasting impact on better individual & pop health outcomes and reduce disparities in care. healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl… Health Affairs

Will employees continue to utilize telehealth benefits post-COVID? benefitnews.com/opinion/will-e… Christina Cutter MD MSc

🚨Out today JAMA Internal Medicine 🚨 We assessed patterns of preoperative testing before low-risk surgery in Michigan. These are high-volume services w/ strong evidence that they have no clinical benefit & can lead to cascades of invasive diagnostic testing. bit.ly/3wfFQW6

At 63 hospitals in MVC: Panel A shows the wide range of testing rates for three low-risk surgeries separately. Panel B shows how the testing rate for the three surgeries varied within hospitals.

Wide inter- and intra-hospital variations in low-value preoperative testing before low-risk surgery in Michigan suggest opportunities to improve value-based perioperative care ja.ma/33WGLyB Nicholas L. Berlin MD, MPH, MS @EveKerrMD @DrHariNathan @leslydossett