Healthforce Center is advancing knowledge, from scope of practice implications to training requirements and supply and demand, of technicians and therapists in the health care workforce.
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For more than a decade, our researchers have been investigating the medical assistant workforce, including scope of practice considerations, new care models that extend the use of medical assistants, and supply and demand.
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Healthforce Center researchers are examining the emerging role of community health workers in health care and the implications for providing high-quality care to diverse patient populations.
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Case managers, patient navigators, and patient advocates play an increasingly critical role in complex health care delivery systems. Healthforce Center research focuses on this rapidly-evolving group of professionals.
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Decisionmakers at health care organizations hold the keys to making consequential improvements in health care delivery and quality.
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At Healthforce Center, we are examining and evaluating the expanded role of paramedics and EMTs in delivering care.
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Understanding the supply, demand, and distribution of the health care workforce is critical to ensuring high quality care to the greatest amount of people. Healthforce Center looks closely at these issues, with an eye on health care access and improvement.
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The diversity and cultural competence of the health workforce directly impacts access to and quality of health care. At Healthforce Center, we have examined the diversity of the workforce, tested innovations to improve cultural competency, and studied the link between diversity and health equity.
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The future of health care requires new models of care that improve health and contain costs. Our work examines emerging models of care, identifies the most promising models, and supports the successful spread of care model innovations.
Why is researching new health care models important? Transformation is occurring at every stage of the health care system from delivery to payment methods. As a result, the health care workforce is evolving quickly. New models help organizations understand and develop every level of health care worker to meet the ever-changing needs of patients.
Below, see the publications and projects that Healthforce Center has engaged with around this topic.
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Healthforce Center provides critical insights into the quality of health care in the United States, including advancing evidence-based models of care and rigorous evaluation.