Greater Boston Resources

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3 Lessons for Engaging Patients in Their Health Care Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...	Mar 05, 2014
A Community Embracing the Consumer Voice to Improve Care Organizations that have patients and consumers at the table lend a valuable perspective to decision makers about the way care is provided...	May 09, 2013
AF4Q Drives Health Care Transformation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 16 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities are showing that bringing together the...	Aug 15, 2012
AF4Q Featured in Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. Blog Post Aligning Forces was recently featured in a Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) blog post about Alliances’ unique...	Mar 13, 2015
AF4Q Greater Boston teams up with Consumer Reports to Releases Patient Experience Data Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) and Consumers Reports collaborated to provide Massachusetts consumers with reliable and useful...	Jun 06, 2012
AF4Q in Focus Every day, AF4Q communities are finding new ways of approaching old problems in our health care system. There is no one road we must take...	Nov 14, 2012
AF4Q: Who We Are, What We Do Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is the visionary effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pilot real change in today's...	Jul 31, 2014
Bridging the Gap: Health Care and Population Health Bridging the Gap More than 80 participants gathered in Dallas September 19-20 to discuss bridging the gap between health care and...	Oct 22, 2013
Collaborating, Analyzing, and Improving Care in Boston Is it possible to improve health care quality and reduce costs? The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative in Greater...	May 07, 2014
Communicating with patients and the public about value and payment reform, Bright Spot Learn about the success of the Greater Boston Alliance in regards to communicating with patients and the public about value...	Nov 21, 2011
Developing a Public Report for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey: A Decision Guide Public reports on patient experience with physician practices across a community can be invaluable for demonstrating how well these...	Oct 02, 2013
Employer Engagement Learning Collaborative: Resource Directory List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.	Jun 01, 2012
Greater Boston AF4Q Finds National Attention for Report The Greater Boston AF4Q Alliance released its seventh annual clinical quality data report, Quality Insights: Primary Care in...	Sep 08, 2011
Greater Boston: A Community Embracing the Consumer Voice to Improve Care A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Helping Consumers Make Better Health Care Choices Publishing information about how patients experience the care they receive at their doctor’s office is one way to increase physician...	Dec 19, 2012
Helping Underserved Neighborhoods Get the Care They Need Health care leaders in Boston are helping residents in traditionally underserved communities get the resources they need to improve their...	Nov 18, 2014
Inclusive Procedures…Huge Impact In March 2011, Tufts Medical Center, a member of the AF4Q initiative in Greater Boston, added a new field to the patient registration...	Sep 07, 2011
Innovative Technology Improves Interpreting Service Efficiency To ensure that patients who need medical interpreter services are served as quickly as possible, Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical...	Jan 09, 2012
Insights from Aligning Forces for Quality Aligning Forces for Quality is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to lift the overall quality of care in...	Sep 25, 2012
Looking for a new doctor? Looking for a new doctor? If you live in Massachusetts, it’s easier than ever with HealthcareCompassMA.org. The new consumer-friendly...	Jun 18, 2014
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners and the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence Unite On April 1, 2011, the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence merged with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, in order to enlarge the...	Sep 08, 2011
Massachusetts Physician Group Improves Patient Experience Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, convening member of the AF4Q alliance from Greater Boston, Massachusetts, was recently featured in...	Sep 08, 2011
Massachusetts: Statewide Initiatives Using PCMH to Transform Care in the Safety Net In Massachusetts, increasing provider dissatisfaction was exacerbating an already critical primary care workforce shortage...	May 21, 2012
National Meeting Highlight Videos The Aligning Forces for Quality November 2011 National Meeting was held in Washington DC and was broken up into three distinct tracks:...	Feb 06, 2012
Quality Field Notes: How to Build a Sustainable Patient Experience Program Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional Alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...	Oct 06, 2014