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Strategically Managing Research and Dissemination for Maximum Policy Impact
 SC is committed to strategically managing and disseminating its research for maximum policy impact. As part of this commitment, HSC will deepen existing relationships and build new ones with congressional and agency staff, industry associations and consumer groups to help anticipate emerging policy topics and discern information gaps about current issues. These interactions, both through formal forums, such as speaking engagements and congressional testimony, and informal exchanges, such as briefings and discussions about market trends and related policy, are guiding HSC in developing research that helps policy makers come up with practical, real-world solutions to health care problems and challenges.
Over the last two years, the HSC Users’ Advisory Committee—which includes prominent experts from leading consumer and employer groups, policy organizations and industry associations— has provided important guidance in developing HSC’s research agenda.
In addition to this committee, many other less formal relationships with policy makers, and relationships with policy research colleagues at MPR, are helping to link HSC’s research to the policy community. HSC will work over the coming years to make those connections even stronger.
Finally, HSC will continue working closely with journalists who serve as a critical
filter for policy makers inundated with health policy research. Over the last
few years, the media increasingly have turned to HSC as an honest broker of information,
viewing it as an organization that is not beholden to special interests or an
ideological point of view. Both news coverage of HSC and visits to HSC’s Web site—www.hschange.org—are
up significantly.
The key strategic planning goals— establishing a policy research focus in three
main areas, making data more accessible and widely available and managing the
research and dissemination process for maximum policy impact—represent the cornerstone
of HSC’s future and promise to make the organization an even more important resource
for the policy community.
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