Health Policy Research

The focus of the Department of Health Policy Research is to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care. We have approached this task in many innovative ways, including:

• Finding ways to prevent the development of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and depression
• Helping patients with these chronic illnesses better manage their condition
• Using information technology to promote evidence-based care
• Developing strategies for involving the community in health improvement
• Evaluating novel payment strategies for physicians and care providers that foster disease prevention and care coordination

In the News

Shared Medical Appointments Help Promote Weight Loss, PAMF Research Shows, January 24, 2011

Palo Alto Medical Foundation zeros in on disease with SAS® Visual Data Discovery, January 4, 2011

PAMF Researchers AHRQ Grant to Study Trends in Obesity Among Complex Patients, December 21, 2010

PAMF Researchers Awarded AHRQ Grant to Study PAMF as a Patient Centered Medical Home, November 22, 2010

More research needed on cardiovascular disease in Asian-Americans; data lags because studies have often counted Asian subgroups as one, August 23, 2010

PAMF Researchers to Present Findings at American College of Epidemiology Annual Meeting, August 20, 2010

Cardiovascular Disease the Leading Cause of Death for California’s South Asians, PAMF Research Shows, June 2, 2010


Study finds many unpaid tasks in a primary-care doctor's workday, The Washington Post, April 29, 2010

On Socialism, Corporate Giveaways and Harold Luft's ''Total Cure'', Forbes.com, August 31, 2009

Debate on MRI Payments Just one Hurdle for Reform, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, August 11, 2009

Health Care Reform — Toward More Freedom and Responsibility for Physicians, New England Journal of Medicine, August 6, 2009

Obama Calls Health Care Pitch a Move to Reform, San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 2009

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