Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Project Title: Promoting Integrated Delivery Systems for Medicare's Most Vulnerable Beneficiaries
Principal Investigator: Melanie Bella, M.B.A.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $215,157

The Nuffield Trust

Project Title: Commonwealth Fund/Nuffield Trust International Conference on Health Care Quality Improvement, 2009
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Dixon
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $75,000

Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

Project Title: Exploring the Value of National Electronic Prescribing Systems
Principal Investigator: Douglas Johnston
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $220,126

Johns Hopkins University

Project Title: Improving Coordination of Care Through Electronic Health Record-Based Performance Measurement
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Weiner, Dr.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $298,284

Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

Project Title: Contributing to Health Care Reform: Analysis and Technical Assistance
Principal Investigator: Sherry Glied, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $194,719

Trustees of Tufts College

Project Title: The Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector: A Model for State and Federal Health Reform?
Principal Investigator: Amy Lischko, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $91,276

Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare

Project Title: Expansion of 2009 International Health Policy Survey to Include the Netherlands
Principal Investigator: Richard Grol, Ph.D., FRCGP
Date Awarded: November 2, 2008
Award Amount: $37,863

Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC

Project Title: Insurance Standards and Policy Levers in Building a High Performance Health System
Principal Investigator: Michael H. Bailit
Date Awarded: November 2, 2008
Award Amount: $23,440

DMA Health Strategies

Project Title: Case Study of State Strategies for Implementing Universal Early Childhood Developmental Screening
Principal Investigator: D. Russell Lyman, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 2, 2008
Award Amount: $35,500

Medical Society of the State of New York

Project Title: Mental Health Education for Nursing Home Staff: A Proposal to Address a Critical Problem
Principal Investigator: Evelyn Dooley, M.D.
Date Awarded: October 1, 2008
Award Amount: $44,800

Greater New York Hospital Association

Project Title: 2008 Symposium on Health Care Services in New York: Research and Practice
Principal Investigator: Tim Johnson
Date Awarded: September 23, 2008
Award Amount: $1,000

Project HOPE/The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

Project Title: 'Cost Containment' Thematic Issue of Health Affairs
Principal Investigator: Susan Dentzer, M.A.
Date Awarded: September 12, 2008
Award Amount: $50,000

Pennsylvania State University

Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of the IHI/CMWF Demostration to Reduce Re-Hospitalizations
Principal Investigator: Dennis P. Scanlon
Date Awarded: September 12, 2008
Award Amount: $50,000

Education & Research Fund of the Employee Benefit Research Institute

Project Title: 2009 Sustaining Membership in the EBRI/ERF: Support of the Annual Health Confidence Survey and the Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey
Principal Investigator: Paul Fronstin, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: September 12, 2008
Award Amount: $46,000

United Hospital Fund of New York

Project Title: 2008 United Hospital Fund Gala
Principal Investigator: James R. Tallon, Jr.
Date Awarded: September 12, 2008
Award Amount: $8,500