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School of Public Health Division of Health Policy and Management Nineteenth Annual Minnesota Health Services Research Conference Continuing Education and Conference Center St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Conference Information & Registration Sponsoring Organizations: Allina Health Center for Care Organization Research & Development, University of Minnesota Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota Fairview Health Services HealthPartners Institute for Education & Research Mayo Clinic Medical Industry Leadership Institute Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Medica Research Institute Minnesota Department of Health Minnesota Department of Human Services National Marrow Donor Program PreferredOne Stratis Health Target Corporation Veteran s Administration Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research

Goals Allina Health; Center for Care Organization Research & Development, University of Minnesota; Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota; Fairview Health Services; HealthPartners Institute for Education & Research; Mayo Clinic; Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; Medica Research Institute; Minnesota Department of Health; Minnesota Department of Human Services; National Marrow Donor Program; PreferredOne; Stratis Health; Target Corporation; and Veteran s Administration Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research are pleased to convene the Nineteenth Annual Minnesota Health Services Research Conference. The purpose of this conference is to bring together Minnesota s health services research community for a day of scholarly presentations and discussions. The goal is to establish a dialog among all those doing health services research in Minnesota. The sponsors encourage health services researchers, health care providers, public health officials, health care administrators, and any others interested in health care policy and research to attend. The conference would like to thank the sponsors for all of their hard work and financial support in making this event a success.

Collaboration across boundaries in Health Services Research Christopher Chute, MD, DRPH Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Chief Health Research Information Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine Keynote Address at 8:15 a.m. Dr. Chute received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology at Harvard. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He is presently the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics as Johns Hopkins, as well as professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. Additionally, he is Chief Health Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is presently Chairs the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 Revision. Dr. Chute became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo in 1988, and retired as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Section Head in 2014. He was PI on Mayo s CTSA Informatics core, the emerge cooperative agreement on genotype to phenotype association, the Pharmacogenomics Research Network Ontology Resource, the LexGrid projects, and co-pi on the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. Recent grants as PI include the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) on Secondary EHR Data Use and the ONC Beacon Community (Co-PI). Dr. Chute chaired Mayo s Data Governance Committee and served on Mayo s enterprise IT Oversight Committee, and CTSA Executive Committee. Recently held external positions include Chair, ISO Health Informatics Technical Committee (ISO TC215), service as an index member on the Health Information Technology Standards Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator in the US DHHS, a member of the HL7 Advisory Council, and the initial Chair of the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics study section at NIH. Keynote

Nineteenth Annual Minnesota Health Services Research Conference March 3, 2015 7:15 8:00 am Registration, Continental Breakfast, Lobby Exhibits by Sponsoring Organizations 8:00 8:15 am Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker Room 135 Heather R. Britt, MPH, PhD Director, Division of Applied Research, Allina Health 8:15 9:15 am Keynote Address: The Unbounded Potential of Population Health as the Room 135 Foundation for Healthcare Transformation: What we need to do to make this happen Christopher Chute, MD, DRPH Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Chief Health Research Information Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine Concurrent Session One 9:45 11:00 am Room 135AC SYMPOSIUM 1A Panel: Collaborating to Advance ehealth and Health Information Exchange CONVENER: Douglas Wholey Room 135BD PAPER SESSION 1B Health Coverage and the Affordable Care Act CONVENER: Barb Frank Concurrent Session Two 11:15 am 12:30 pm Room 135AC SYMPOSIUM 2A Collaborating Across Boundaries to Support the Dissemination and Implementation of Patient-Centered Health Interventions: A methods-based symposium CONVENER: Victor Montori Room 135BD SYMPOSIUM 2B Monitoring the Impact of the ACA in Minnesota: Three Analytic Approaches CONVENER: Stefan Gildemeister 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch Announcement of Student Paper Competition Award Winners Concurrent Session Three 1:45-3:00 pm Room 135AC PAPER SESSION 3A Changes in Care Delivery CONVENER: Ellen Denzen Room 135BD PAPER SESSION 3B Assessing Changes in Health Coverage CONVENER: Pat Carlson Concurrent Session four 3:15-4:30 pm Room 135AC PAPER SESSION 4A Evidence and Decision Making CONVENER: Heather Britt Room 135BD PAPER SESSION 4B Reorganizing Health Care CONVENER: Kristina Bloomquist

Schedule Room 155 PAPER SESSION 1C Obstetrics CONVENER: Angela Fertig Room 156 PAPER SESSION 1D Disparities I Race and Ethnicity CONVENER: Brian Martinson Room 155 PAPER SESSION 2C Patient Outcomes Studies CONVENER: Laura Grangaard Room 156 PAPER SESSION 2D Student Paper Competition CONVENER: Pamela Mink Room 155 SYMPOSIUM 3C Using a Patient and Family Centered Approach in a Late Life Supportive Care Intervention Pilot Phase Findings CONVENER: Eric W. Anderson Room 156 PAPER SESSION 4C Disparities II Insurance CONVENER: Michelle Hopkins Room 155 PAPER SESSION 3D Long Term Care CONVENER: Megan Flynn Room 156 PAPER SESSION 4D Methods for Attribution, Adjustment, and Geography CONVENER: Mike Finch To register, go to register.cce.umn.edu and enter course event ID 188918

CONCURRENT SESSION ONE / 9:45 11:00 a m Room 135AC SYMPOSIUM 1A Collaborating to Advance ehealth and Health Information Exchange DESCRIPTION: Discussion on collaborative efforts toward successful health information exchange and ehealth CONVENER: Doug Wholey PRESENTERS: Christopher G Chute, Marty LaVenture, Connie White Delaney PAPER SESSION 1B Health Coverage and the Affordable Care Act DESCRIPTION: Presents research on the effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance reform and its impacts CONVENER: Barb Frank Insurer Competition and Premiums in the Federal Exchange Coleman Drake, Jeffrey S. McCullough, Jean M. Abraham, Kosali I. Simon How Does the Dependent Coverage Mandate Affect Young Adults Decisions to Work? Jiani Yu Implications of the Affordable Care Act s Medicaid Expansion in Coverage for Health Care Access among Uninsured Adults: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey Donna L. Spencer, Heather M. Dahlen, Sharon K. Long, Kathleen T. Call PAPER SESSION 1C Obstetrics DESCRIPTION: Presents research on obstetric outcomes and quality, and access to obstetric care with an emphasis on rural health CONVENER: Angela Fertig Variation in risk-adjusted rates of adverse obstetric outcomes across hospitals nationwide Amy J. Anderson, Katy B. Kozhimannil, Roger Feldman, David Knutson Why are obstetric units in rural hospitals closing their doors? Peiyin Hung, Katy B. Kozhimannil, Michelle M. Casey, Shailendra Prasad, Ira S. Moscovice Effects of Rural Obstetric Unit Closures on Access to Care Peiyin Hung, Katy B. Kozhimannil, Michelle M. Casey, Ira S. Moscovice PAPER SESSION 1D Disparities I Race and Ethnicity DESCRIPTION: Presents findings on racial/ethnic patterns in mortality, quality of life, and health insurance coverage CONVENER: Brian Martinson Racially Concentrated Poverty and Mortality Amenable to Health Care in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area Nate Hierlmaier Racial Differences in Quality of Life among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Association with Living Arrangements Tetyana Shippee, Carrie Henning-Smith Parental Documentation Status and Coverage Disparities among the Children of Latino Immigrants Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Kathleen Call

CONCURRENT SESSION TWO / 11:15 a m 1 2 : 3 0 p m Room 135BD SYMPOSIUM 2A Collaborating Across Boundaries to Support the Dissemination and Implementation of Patient-Centered Health Interventions: A methods-based symposium DESCRIPTION: We will provide an orientation to diverse methodological approaches to dissemination and implementation research. Will use ongoing and completed illustrative examples and introduce helpful resources CONVENER: Victor Montori PRESENTERS: Victor M. Montori, Ian Hargraves, Annie LeBlanc, Aaron Leppin, Kasey Boehmer SYMPOSIUM 2B Monitoring the Impact of the ACA in Minnesota: Three Analytic Approaches DESCRIPTION: Presents findings on the early impacts of the ACA on health insurance coverage in Minnesota CONVENER: Stefan Gildemeister PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Lukanen, Julie Sonier, Kathleen Thiede Call, Alisha Baines Simon PAPER SESSION 2C Patient Outcomes Studies DESCRIPTION: Presents findings from studies assessing patient health outcomes CONVENER: Laura Grangaard Are individuals detected by screening living longer? Estimating relative survival for screen- and symptom-detected colorectal cancer patients - Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Karen M. Kuntz Physician-Hospital Volume Share and Patient Outcomes Andrew Wilcock Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Trends in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome within Minnesota Health Care Programs Molly Gagnon PAPER SESSION 2D Student Paper Competition DESCRIPTION: This section includes the three highest rated student papers based on blind review by an expert panel CONVENER: Pamela Mink Implementation of a Standardized Quality of Life Questionnaire throughout a Health System Caitlin Schuler Illness and healthcare-related demands on patients and their disruption of patient lives: A survey of patients on dialysis Kasey R. Boehmer The Effect of Participation in an Incentivized, Fitness-based Employer Wellness Program on Days of Exercise per Week Daniel J. Crespin

CONCURRENT SESSION THREE / 1:45 3:00 p m Room 155 PAPER SESSION 3A Changes in Care Delivery DESCRIPTION: Presents findings from research on system workflow changes and work-related distress CONVENER: Ellen Denzen Using A Prospective Medication Review to Improve Care Transitions Erik Zabel, Candy Hanson Effects of an Organizational Intervention on Burnout: Lessons Learned from Team Care Dylan L. Galos, William Spinelli, Karl M. Fernstrom, Stacey Ferguson, Heather R. Britt Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Multidisciplinary Care Teams: Burnout, Moral Distress and Career Satisfaction Sanya Virani PAPER SESSION 3B Assessing Changes in Health Coverage DESCRIPTION: Presents findings on monitoring and evaluating changes in payment related to health reform and recent economic trends CONVENER: Pat Carlson Making Use of All-Payer Claims Databases for Health Care Reform Evaluation Jennifer Ricards, Lynn Blewett Changing Trends in Employer-Sponsored Insurance Before and After the Great Recession Colin Planalp, Julie Sonier, Brett Fried Pent-up Health Care Demand after the Affordable Care Act Angela Fertig, Caroline Carlin, Sharon Long SYMPOSIUM 3C Using a Patient and Family Centered Approach in a Late Life Supportive Care Intervention Pilot Phase Findings DESCRIPTION: Presents the initial results from using a whole-person approach for late-life care CONVENER: Eric W. Anderson PRESENTERS: Eric W. Anderson, Sandra Schellinger, Heather Britt, Monica Schmitz Frazer PAPER SESSION 3D Disparities II Insurance DESCRIPTION: Presents research on access and barriers related to health insurance CONVENER: Michelle Hopkins Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children with Chronic Conditions Under the ACA Gilbert Gonzales; Lynn A Blewett Does Insurance-Based Discrimination Change Over Time in Minnesota? A Trend Analysis of Insurance-Based Discrimination from 2007 to 2013 Xinxin Han, Kathleen Thiede Call, Jessie Kemmick Pintor Insurance-Based Discrimination in Health Care: Potential to Undermine the Access and Equity Goals of the ACA Xinxin Han, Kathleen Thiede Call, Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Giovann Alarcon Espinoza, Alisha Baines Simon

CONCURRENT SESSION FOUR / 3:15 4:30 p m Room 156 PAPER SESSION 4A Evidence and Decision Making DESCRIPTION: Presents findings from studies of the use of evidence in medical decision making and guideline creation CONVENER: Heather Britt The Effects of Cancer Screening Shared Decision Making Interventions: A Systematic Review Sarah E. Lillie, Melissa R. Partin, Nancy L. Greer, Angela E. Fabbrini, Sagar Patel, Kathy Rice, Timothy J. Wilt Pharmacists, shared decision making, and medication therapy management; learnings from a onetime intervention focusing on mental health Katherine Montag Schafer, Michael Gionfriddo, Deborah Boehm A System-Wide Process for Evidence-Based Decision Making in a Community-Based Health Care System Anna Briggs Kleckner PAPER SESSION 4B Reorganizing Health Care DESCRIPTION: Presents findings on approaches to care delivery and organizational attributes of Pioneer ACOS CONVENER: Kristina Bloomquist Usual Source of Health Care as a Way to Reduce Health Care Access Barriers Alisha Simon Pioneer ACOs: What Do we Know about Drivers of Performance in the First Year? Katie M. White, Dave Knutson, Jean Abraham, Jessica Zeglin, Matthew Timmel, Hannah Johnson Implementing Shared Panel Practice: Preliminary Findings from a Promising New Model of Primary Care Delivery Dylan L. Galos, William Spinelli, Cindy L. Cain, Karl M. Fernstrom, Keith J Olson, Heather R. Britt PAPER SESSION 4C Long Term Care DESCRIPTION: Presents research on long term care needs and tools for evaluating and assisting providers and patients CONVENER: Megan Flynn Family Satisfaction with Nursing Homes: The Role of Organizational Predictors and Resident Quality of Life Tetyana P. Shippee, Carrie Henning-Smith, Joseph E. Gaugler, Robert Held, Robert Kane Differences in Expectations about Future Long-Term Care Use by Sexual Orientation Carrie Henning-Smith, Gilbert Gonzales, Tetyana P. Shippee A community-based approach to increasing hospice utilization Laura Grangaard Johnson PAPER SESSION 4D Methods for Attribution, Adjustment, and Geography DESCRIPTION: Presents research on methods and data for assessing health services, costs, and coverage CONVENER: Mike Finch A Comparison of Retrospective Attribution Rules Lucas Higuera, Caroline Carlin The contribution of illness burden in risk adjusting health care costs across Minnesota counties Elizabeth A. Egan Location, Location, Location: Leveraging Interactive Maps and ZIP Code Level Data to Find the Remaining Uninsured Brett Fried, Elizabeth Lukanen, Karen Turner

Nineteenth Annual Minnesota Health Services Research Conference Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Continuing Education and Conference Center 1890 Buford Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 For additional information, call Cecilia Colizza at 612-624-7990 or email: ccolizza@umn.edu Directions to the Continuing Education and Conference Center FROM I-694 take 35W south to the Cleveland Avenue exit (Note: exit to the left). Follow Cleveland Avenue to Larpenteur Avenue. Go east (left) on Larpenteur to Gortner, turn south (right) on Gortner and go to Buford Avenue. Turn east (left) on Buford Avenue to the parking area. FROM I-35W take the Highway 36 exit and turn south on Cleveland Avenue to Larpenteur Avenue. Go east (left) on Larpenteur to Gortner, turn south (right) on Gortner and go to Buford Avenue. Turn east (left) on Buford Avenue to the parking area. FROM DOWNTOWN ST. PAUL go west on I-94 to Snelling Ave. Go north on Snelling Ave. to Larpenteur Avenue. Go west (left) on Larpenteur to Gortner, turn south (left) on Gortner and go to Buford Avenue. Turn east (left) on Buford Avenue to the parking area. FROM DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS go east on I-94 to MN-280, exit number 236. (Note: exit to the left). Merge onto MN-280 north. Exit at Larpenteur Ave. Take Larpenteur east (right) to Gortner (3rd traffic light). Turn south (right) on Gortner and go to Buford Avenue. Turn east (left) on Buford Avenue to the parking area. Parking Free parking available in Lot S104 beginning at 7:00am. Please tell the attendant you are with the HSR Conference. Accreditation Continuing Education Units This program carries 0.6 CEUs for those participating in the entire program. There is a $10 additional administrative charge for persons requesting CEU credit. Please check with your accrediting organization or professional society about accepting these conference credits. Educational Objectives Following this conference, participants will be able to: Discuss the issues presented in each of the concurrent sessions attended. Demonstrate increased awareness about state and national health policy issues. Understand and discuss current health services research issues. View their part of the health care environment with the added perspective of other disciplines represented at the conference. Contact other health services researchers with similar research interests.

Registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for the conference is $60. There is a $10 additional administrative charge for persons requesting CEU credit. No partial day or group rates are available. Presenters, discussants, conveners, and sponsors must register for the conference and pay the standard registration fee. The fee for students registered for at least 6 credits (and not employed by a sponsoring organization) is $32. Students are eligible to apply for a scholarship for a reduced conference fee. Student Scholarships: Ten undergraduate/graduate student scholarships are available on a first come, first served basis at a registration rate of $15. These scholarships are offered to cover the registration fee for students who are registered for at least six credits and have an interest in health services research. To apply, please write a brief paragraph describing your interest in health services research and/or the conference theme. Your submission will be evaluated and you will be notified of the outcome within several days of our receipt of the application. Forward your statement by e-mail to Cecilia Colizza at ccolizza@umn.edu, and complete the on-line registration form (see links below), noting your scholarship request. To register for the conference, please follow the URL link listed below. Payment by credit card option: If your registration fee is being paid by credit card, please fill out the registration and payment information at: register.cce.umn.edu Enter Course Event ID: 188918. Payment by check option: If your registration fee is being paid by personal or business check, please contact Cecilia Colizza (612-624-7990). You may cancel your registration until February 21, 2012. Provide written notification of cancellation in order to receive a refund of your registration fee minus a $10 cancellation fee. To correspond by mail, please use the following address: Nineteenth Annual Minnesota Health Services Research Conference Division of Health Policy and Management University of Minnesota School of Public Health, c/o Cecilia Colizza 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0374 The registration fee for the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference covers the cost of a continental breakfast, break refreshments, and lunch. A vegetarian meal will be available. The sponsoring organizations cover all other conference costs. Please contact us if you have special mobility needs so we can arrange for these prior to the conference for you. For additional information, contact Cecilia Colizza at 612-624-7990 or email: ccolizza@umn.edu This registration brochure can be downloaded at http://www.sphcenters.umn.edu/hsrconf/ The web site for conference registration and payment is at register.cce.umn.edu (Event ID: 188918) The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.