Donaghue Foundation Greater Value in Healthcare Portfolio - LOI
https://donaghue.org/greater-value-portfolio/

Investigators conducting research to develop actionable solutions to one or more of these symptoms of low-value healthcare are encouraged to apply to the Greater Value Portfolio program:

• High and rising healthcare costs
• Unwarranted variation in prices
• Racial and ethnic disparities in access, prices, and outcomes
• Unaffordable cost of care burden on patients and families
• Unacceptable variation in quality
• Lack of transparency in both price and outcomes

Eligible topics include studies that focus on improving value through promising strategies using one or more of these approaches:

• Test models of care, coverage, or system change that  seek to improve value by addressing one or more of the symptoms of low value
• Reduce treatments, tests, and screenings for patients for whom the potential harms (including financial harm) outweigh potential benefits
• Provide tools to help consumers make decisions about their healthcare based on value, including the cost of care to patients, in addition to other patient-centered factors
• Promote conversations between patients and their clinicians and care teams about preferences and trade-offs related to alternative treatment options and /or out of pocket cost burden to patients and families
• Test interventions geared to increasing equity through the provision of higher value healthcare