MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative

We have just released the September issue of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative Newsletter! HSI is funding four new research projects including topics on developing new models to inform proposed policy for fair kidney allocation and investigating the incentives for and cost of charity care at not-for-profit hospitals. https://lnkd.in/eFNv7zku

Join us December 2nd at the HSI Lunch Seminar Series with Brian Anderson, MD. Coalition for Health AI (CHAI). Sign up at Sloan Groups for in person or on Zoom.

Our next seminar is Nov. 18: HSI Lunch Seminar Series with Ken Mandl MD, MPH, Boston Children's Hospital (BCH), Director, Computational Health Informatics Program?(CHIP) Sign up on Sloan Groups https://lnkd.in/eqVFzb76

HSI Newsletter: October?2024 Learn about HSI’s year, and go deeper into subjects that interest you most!Review our reports - Research, Lab on Employee Population Health, Seminars and Events, Education, Communications, and Advisory Board.

Join our next seminar on Monday November 4, in person or on Zoom. HSI Lunch Seminar Series Scale Up Health Part 1: Exiting Startup - Fuel Up Explores challenges and strategies for transitioning from startup to growth stage. Open to all. Signup on SloanGroups, link below. Speakers: Deepthi Bathina (Founder and CEO, RhythmX AI), Ellen Herlacher, MBA '13, Partner, LRVHealth and Vijay Jun Patel, MBA '12, Managing Partner, CVS Health Ventures

HSI Funds New Research Project Recommendations to Increase Effectiveness of a Digital Mental Health Software Program A McKinsey national survey revealed that employee behavioral health is a top concern that affects workforce productivity.?Employers are, therefore, increasingly supporting employees in seeking options for improving their mental health.?SilverCloud?, a leading global provider of evidence-based digital mental health solutions, has been used by employers to provide treatment support.? The research team, led by MIT Sloan HSI Professor Georgia Perakis, also includes?Dessislava Pachamanova, Professor at Babson College; PhD and MBA?students at the Operations Research Center, MIT; and collaborators from SilverCloud?. The team is building on prior work in healthcare (for example in hospital operations) and other fields to understand which strategies are most effective for different types of clients. The research design involves studying the sequences of interactions between program reps (“supporters”) and users (“clients”) to identify how their communications relate to user actions and lead to course completion over time.? They anticipate important theoretical and practical applications of the methods developed, not only for mental health treatment, but also to other fields in healthcare and beyond.?

What practical steps can managers take to give employees, particularly frontline employees, more say in their workplace? Arrow Minster, a recent MIT Sloan doctoral dissertation?in the?MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program, explores this question.

MIT Sloan’s Healthcare Lab (H-Lab)collaborated with Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA. This ambitious project, which required entrepreneurial thinking and a startup mentality, enabling qualified patients to receive inpatient level care in a familiar environment. Read how MIT Sloan’s Healthcare Lab (H-Lab) was the perfect collaborator.

HSI Newsletter: July?2024 has just been released! ?? In this issue, we report on the?final two HSI Lunchtime Seminars?of the 2023-2024 academic year. Both of these were part of our series, Sparking the Data Revolution in Healthcare. We also highlight some of the?latest research by HSI professors?in hospital operations, worker wellbeing and the effect of social media. In the?News Notes section, we link to articles about two?MIT professors' recent health-related research.?Prof. Collin Stultzis applying machine learning techniques to cardiovascular medicine. Preliminary results of AI-abetted predictions are very promising, and he is currently conducting clinical trials to validate these results.?Prof. David Rand?recently published an article in the journal Science on quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook. He examines the relationship between misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. David Rand Collin Stultz

Better Cardiovascular Care Through AI Professor and physician Collin Stultz wants to help heart patients everywhere by applying machine-learning techniques to cardiovascular medicine