About Us

The Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences (C4HDS) is an academic research organization dedicated to improving health care by identifying, designing, rigorously evaluating, and reporting transformational solutions to engage patients and providers in care delivery.  Our studies rely on the principles of Implementation Research but incorporate influences from a broad range of fields including cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, biostatistics, epidemiology and clinical medicine.

 

The research conducted at the Center is highly collaborative and involves close partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders in healthcare, including organizations that deliver care, administer health insurance benefits and/or develop new technologies. The collaborators, funders, and faculty of the Center share an interest in the identification, rigorous testing and the independent evaluation of strategies that actually work to optimize healthcare quality. A key principle of the Center's work is the peer-reviewed publication of study results - whether positive or negative. The Center's collaborators are organizations that value this objective evaluation and use the results to help guide their own decision-making.