Founded in 2018, the International Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes and Needs in Care (ICCONIC) consists of 11 partners from North America, Europe and the Pacific who are committed to answering critical questions about this understudied patient population. Drawing on regional and national data, the Collaborative is creating foundational research that will provide key policy insights on how to address rising costs while simultaneously improving HNHC patient outcomes.
Across health systems, high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients tend to constitute a relatively small segment of the population while accounting for a disproportionately large share of healthcare expenditures. Little is known, however, about how patterns of healthcare utilization, spending, and outcomes for HNHC patients vary across health systems.
ICCONIC hopes to develop a innovative methodology to compare the cost, utilisation and outcomes of high-need, high-cost populations in different health systems.
Project CoordinatorLed by Brown University School of Public Health
IACS participate in ICCONIC. Consists of a diverse set of 12 institutions, including think-tanks, international organizations and research centers.
This project is partially funded by the Commonwealth Fund and the Health Foundation
Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Blankart CR, Shatrov K, Wodchis W, Janlov N, Figueroa JF, Bowden N, Bernal-Delgado E, Papanicolas I.
Figueroa JF, Horneffer KE, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Blankart CR, Bowden N, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Hansen TM, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Pellet L, Orlander D, Penneau A, Schoenfeld AJ, Shatrov K, Skudal KE, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis WP, Tanke M, Jha AK, Papanicolas I.
Carl Rudolf Blankart PhD, Kees van Gool PhD, MEc, Irene Papanicolas PhD, Enrique Bernal-Delgado MD, PhD, Nicholas Bowden MCom, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero MD, MPH, Robin Gauld PhD, Hannah Knight PhD, Olukorede Abiona PhD, Kristen Riley BA, Andrew J. Schoenfeld MD, MSc, Kosta Shatrov MSc, Walter P. Wodchis PhD, Jose F. Figueroa MD, MPH, on behalf of the ICCONIC.
Or Z, Shatrov K, Penneau A, Wodchis W, Abiona O, Blankart CR, Bowden N, Bernal-Delgado E, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Papanicolas I, Riley K, Pellet L, Estupiñán-Romero F, van Gool K, Figueroa JF.
Papanicolas I, Figueroa JF, Schoenfeld AJ, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK.
Papanicolas I, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Schoenfeld AJ, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK, Figueroa JF.
Figueroa JF, Papanicolas I, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK.
Project Team Lead
United States/Project Team Lead
Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Irene Papanicolas, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics
Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Dean of the School of Public Health, Brown University School of Public Health
Kristen Riley, BA, Project Coordinator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Aaron Hedquist, MSc, Project Manager, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ciara Duggan, BA, Research Assistant, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The ICCONIC Team
Australia
Kees Van Gool, PhD, MEc, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney Australia
Olukorede Abiona, PhD, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation
Philip Haywood, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation
Canada
Walter Wodchis, PhD, Professor, Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto CA
England
Hannah Knight, PhD, Principal Data Analyst, The Health Foundation
France
Zeynep Or, PhD, Research Director, Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics (IRDES)
Anne Penneau, PhD Candidate, Research Fellow, Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics (IRDES)
Germany
Rudolf Blankart, PhD, Professor of Regulatory Affairs, Center of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern, Switzerland
Netherlands
Femke Atsma, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Yvonne de Man, MsC, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Onno de Galien, Zilveren Kruis, Leusden, The Netherlands
OECD
Luca Lorenzoni, MSc, Health Economist, OECD
New Zealand
Robin Gauld, PhD, Dean & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Otago Business School, University of Otago
Nick Bowden, MCom, Research Fellow, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago
Spain
Enrique Bernal-Delgado, MD, PhD, Senior Health Services Researcher, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon, IACS
Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, MD, MPH, Health Services Researcher, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon, IACS
Carlos Tellería-Orriols, BSc, Data Scientist, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon, IACS
Juan González-García, PhD, Computing Scientist, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon, IACS
Sweden
Nils Janlöv, PhD, Project Director, The Swedish Agency for Health and Care Services Analysis
Switzerland
Rudolf Blankart, PhD, Professor of Regulatory Affairs, Center of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern
Kosta Shatrov, PhD Candidate, University of Bern
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