About
Healthcare organizations are increasingly implementing new care-delivery models to improve patient access and quality of care. Team-based care is a collaborative care delivery process involving interprofessional clinicians. Effective teams leverage the unique skills and experience of all members, promoting each to function at the full scope of practice.
Team-based models of care delivery expand the responsibilities of nurses, who have assumed specialized roles in care management,
care transitions, chronic condition and disease management, and health and wellness coaching. Although team-based care models emphasize the importance of all team members, the quality structure and performance measures of these models have primarily focused on physicians or providers. Less is known about care-delivery patterns of other interprofessional clinicians, including nurses.
Dr. Ann Annis’ area of research involves the utilization and measurement of care-delivery processes in health systems, especially in regards to interprofessional clinicians other than physicians
and providers. Throughout her career, she has contributed to the development and evaluation of multiple clinician-focused healthcare programs and initiatives, at both state and federal levels. Her recent work at the Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System has included the identification of clinician-specific care-delivery models and examination of care-delivery trends in both primary care and inpatient settings.
Dr. Annis is interested in exploring how transformations in system-level, quality improvement, and practice influence clinician roles and care activities; how measurement approaches can be optimized
to improve sensitivity to team-based care; and how care-delivery processes are associated with outcomes. In particular, she aims to investigate how data systems and infrastructure, and big data analytic methods, can be utilized to ascertain patterns of care delivery.