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Help build quantitative tools to move an issue or field forward. The Fund has supported the creation of surveys, performance measures, and other tools that help hospitals and other health care providers improve the quality of their care. It has also devoted resources to assembling chartbooks, case studies, and other publications that map the state of existing knowledge and help define an issue. |
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Support the development of talented young individuals. Fellowship programs for promising young professionals have paid off again and again. The Minority Health Policy Fellows and Harkness Fellows in Health Care Policy perform well individually while on their fellowships, then leverage their abilities in later years. |
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Bring experts and leaders together to sort out issues and build consensus. Fund-sponsored colloquia and working groups have helped shape national and international agendas and given direction to the Fund's own work. |
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Draw attention to the international experience. The Fund is unique in attempting to bring the experiences of other industrialized countries to bear in U.S. health care policymaking. That expertise has enriched the Fund's domestic activities and helped build strong ties with governmental leaders in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. |
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Exercise caution when outside familiar areas. Projects that entail software development, for example, or large, cofunded projects involving abstraction of clinical data, have proven to be disproportionately costly and do not take advantage of the expertise of Fund staff. |
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Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital,
2003 Survey of Harkness Fellows in Health Care Policy, post-tenure. |
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