Research

Research and Business Intelligence

The ongoing benefits and resources of premium USCIPP membership.

Premium USCIPP member organizations collaboratively support an enhanced set of activities related to USCIPP’s mission of expanding access to high-quality US healthcare.   

Benefits

  • Visible recognition as a supporter in all BI-generated materials, including reports, whitepapers, and professional presentations
  • A direct voice in prioritizing research and business intelligence activities
  • Ongoing input and discussion to help shape the approaches taken to research and business intelligence projects
  • First-look access to work research and business intelligence products

Workflows


Annual-Cycle Work

Projects requiring in-depth/methodical analysis and/or updating of existing resources. Prioritized on an annual basis. Opportunities may be provided to commission additional work on an ad hoc basis.


Quarterly Projects

Research involving rapidly changing contexts and/or the need for quick turnaround (e.g., RSO, evolving payor activity by region). Run on a 12-week cycle. Reprioritized quarterly.


Rapid-Cycle Work

Smaller-scale projects relevant to multiple premium USCIPP members (e.g., additional analyses of the benchmarking survey data, additional country profiles, other issue briefings). Reviewed quarterly.


Direct Service Work

Activities requested by individual premium USCIPP members (e.g., database/archival research and retrieval, consultations about specific topics). Tracked by utilization and requesting organization on an ongoing basis.

Examples of Past Projects


Evaluation of business models for remote second opinion (RSO) and telemedicine services:

This project involved surveying current USCIPP members as well as other organizations co‐identified with SPF sponsors to provide a more in-depth analysis of how RSOs and telemedicine services are positioned within the broader business models of international patient care.

Staffing/positions analysis and compensation survey for international patient care positions:

Select USCIPP member programs were surveyed about the nature and kinds of positions comprising their international patient programs. This included the collection of job descriptions that were then cross-walked to identify a standardized set of jobs and job families. These jobs/families were then used to structure a compensation survey. Deliverables included (1) sample job descriptions for the common/standardized positions and (2) a summary report that included compensation practices and rates for a core set of standardized positions.

Predictive analytic models for international medical travel to the United States:

The purpose of this project was to develop data-driven analytic models that predict markets with opportunities for growth in the number of patients traveling to the United States for medical care. Models were created to identify (1) countries that currently do not have an existing market but that have an opportunity for development and (2) markets that exist and have an opportunity for growth.

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