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Minnesota Resources

Title	Date
Minnesota Shared Decision Making - Presentation, National Meeting May 17-19, 2011 The National Meeting was held in Broomfield, Colorado.	Aug 01, 2011
Minnesota Workgroup's Report Takes a 360 Degree Look at Consumer Engagement The AF4Q Minnesota Consumer Engagement Workgroup was charged in 2006 to begin analyzing best practices for engaging consumers to access and...	Sep 16, 2011
Minnesota: Partnering for a Better Patient Experience “Patients are going to get better experience and service because of this survey. A lot of doctors resist the notion this is a service...	Oct 30, 2013
Minnesota: Red, Yellow, Green: Appropriate Use of Diagnostic Imaging Millions of Americans undergo costly and often invasive diagnostic procedures each year. Sometimes these tests help them avoid...	May 21, 2012
Minnesota: The Value Of A Good Night’s Sleep A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Minnesota: Transforming Care At the Bedside When the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) applied to join the Partnership for Patients (P4P) Hospital Engagement Network,...	May 21, 2012
MN Hospital Workflow for Preventing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions Workflow illustrating issues, patient flow and possible interventions. Tool used in early stages of Hospital Readmissions Collaborative...	Sep 17, 2011
Partnering with Consumer Reports to Empower Patients October’s issue of Consumer Reports included a special insert of Consumer Reports Health which featured the great measurement and...	Jan 17, 2013
Partnering With Patients To Make Decisions About Colorectal Cancer Screening Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the leading cause of cancer deaths among...	Dec 19, 2012
Patients Benefit From Becker Clinic's Push on Diabetes In 2008, CentraCare, a clinic in Becker, Minn, was not pleased with its percentage of patients who were receiving optimal care. Just 5%...	Sep 06, 2011
Paving the Way for Difficult Conversations Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a Minnesota nonprofit organization comprised of 61 medical practices, strives to embed...	Feb 06, 2013
Peer-to-Peer Comparisons Spur Improvements in Minnesota When MN Community Measurement, leader of AF4Q in Minnesota, first started publicly reporting data, the belief was that patients would use...	Dec 18, 2013
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
Quality Field Notes: Public Reporting Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional Alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for...	May 18, 2015
Red, Yellow, Green: Appropriate Use of Diagnostic Imaging Millions of Americans undergo costly and often invasive diagnostic procedures each year. Sometimes these tests help them avoid...	May 23, 2012
Reducing Avoidable Readmissions A coalition in Minnesota is working to make improvements in readmissions costs and quality of care. The RARE (Reducing Avoidable...	Aug 07, 2013
Safety-Net ACOs Hold Promise to Achieve the Triple Aim Aligning Forces Alliances in Maine, Minnesota, and Oregon were recently featured in Health Affairs for their efforts in...	Jan 21, 2015
Tactics for Engaging Employers in Community Alliances Most of the Aligning Forces for Quality communities (the Alliances) are eager to involve local employers in their work, both as purchasers...	Apr 29, 2013
The DOCTOR Project Is...In How well do the doctors in your community perform when it comes to managing patients' chronic conditions and offering preventive...	May 21, 2014
The Evolving Landscape for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey: Understanding and Navigating Multiple Surveying Requirements This resource is to help multi-stakeholder organizations, health care systems, and practices understand the complex and rapidly evolving...	Nov 06, 2014
The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Creates a Framework for Shared Decision Making Engaging patients in decisions about their care increases their involvement and satisfaction. Shared decision making (SDM) is one method to...	Sep 08, 2011
The Right Care Not only do Americans not always get the right care, sometimes we get too much of it. Not all medical procedures are created equal, and...	Jun 07, 2013
The Value of a Good Night’s Sleep What is the value of a good night’s sleep in your own bed? Hospital readmissions are costly for the health care system and stressful...	May 09, 2013
Transforming Care at the Bedside When the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) applied to join the Partnership for Patients (P4P) Hospital Engagement...	May 23, 2012
Will I Be Able to Hold My Newborn Daughter? During the summer of 2013, Nathan Hunkins had reached a pinnacle in his life. He had a great job, his wife was almost nine months pregnant...	Dec 02, 2014