Webinar - If You Give a Mouse an EKG: Low-Value Care Cascades

If You Give a Mouse an EKG: Low-Value Care Cascades

A cascade of care is a seemingly unstoppable succession of medical services of uncertain value that are particularly problematic when they stem from low-value tests and/or incidental findings. In this webinar, Harvard Medical School’s Dr Ishani Ganguli will describe the scope of the problem, efforts to quantify and understand drivers of cascades, and interventions to mitigate them. Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, will host this event.

View our recording on the AIHI YouTube channel

About the speaker

Assistant Professor Ishani Ganguli

Ishani Ganguli is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a primary care physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her AB, MD, and MPH from Harvard University and completed internal medicine/primary care residency and health policy and management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on the value of ambulatory and primary care, the consequences of low-value care, and how health care policies and payment/delivery models shape health outcomes and spending. Dr Ganguli is an Associate Editor at JAMA Network Open and writes about health care for publications including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. 

About AIHI

The Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) is an internationally recognised research-intensive centre within Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. We collaborate widely, conducting high impact research into health services and systems to make a positive difference for patients, healthcare professionals and society.