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The AcademyHealth Board of Directors created the HSR Impact Award to recognize research that has had a significant impact on health and health care. The award, which is supported by AcademyHealth, is intended to identify and promote examples of outstanding research that have been successfully translated into health policy, management, or clinical practice. AcademyHealth is pleased to announce the winner of the 2008 HSR Impact Award:
In 1996, she co-founded DxCG, Inc., a company with over 200 national and international clients that promotes “fair and efficient health care” via predictive software. Many of Dr. Ash's ~150 research publications reflect her long-standing interests in: quality, equity and efficiency in health care financing and delivery; methodological issues associated with flagging “outlier” providers; and, gender, age and racial disparities. |
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Arlene Ash, Ph.D., is a Professor of General Internal Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and of Biostatistics in the BU School of Public Health . She is the senior health services research methodologist in BU's Health Care Research Unit. Dr. Ash pioneered methods for using administrative data to monitor and manage health care delivery systems, including Medicare. She has conducted studies for CMS (previously HCFA) since 1984, and is a key developer of the Diagnostic Cost Groups (DCGs) methods that underlie Medicare payments to HMOs. She has served as an expert witness on a range of public policy issues and testified before Congress regarding Medicare payment reform. In 1988 she received HCFA's Administrator's Citation, its highest award, for her DCG work. 
