Wisconsin Resources

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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 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
AF4Q’s Diverse Hospital Network The 117 hospitals participating in the AF4Q Hospital Quality Network are committed to improving the quality of care they deliver. The...	Aug 18, 2011
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
Bundled Payment: The Quest for Simplicity in Pricing and Tying Payment to Quality Local initiatives are showing how new methods for paying for health care can improve quality and control costs. One strategy, called...	Jun 11, 2013
Composite Measures: A New Gold Standard in Diabetes Care Type II diabetes has become a national public health threat. As a chronic disease, diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and...	Feb 28, 2014
Composite Measures: A New Gold Standard in Diabetes Care Type II diabetes has become a national public health threat. As a chronic disease, diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and...	Feb 28, 2014
Consumer Focused Website Shines Historically, comparative health information websites have been difficult to navigate and dense with information that is meaningful to...	Sep 01, 2011
Creating a Diabetes Value Metric, Bright Spot Learn about the success of the Wisconsin Alliance in regards to Creating a Diabetes Value Metric through this Bright...	Nov 14, 2011
Employer Engagement Learning Collaborative: Resource Directory List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.	Jun 01, 2012
First Steps in Engaging Employers in Innovative Payment Strategies Since 2010, The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)—a multi-stakeholder alliance working to improve quality...	Mar 04, 2014
First Steps in Engaging Employers in Innovative Payment Strategies: Lessons from Wisconsin Since 2010, The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)—a multi-stakeholder alliance working to improve quality...	Jan 24, 2014
Green Light on Quality Improvement The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) has found its strength in quality measurement and public reporting...	May 07, 2014
Illustrating Innovation Through Bright Spots Aligning Forces for Quality is, at its heart, about innovation. The communities and people who engage with this unique program are...	May 21, 2012
Improving Care Through Screening and Public Reporting Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the leading cause of cancer deaths among...	Jul 31, 2014
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
Lessons Learned: Engaging Employers in Health Care Employers have great—if, to date, underutilized—market leverage in buying health care, and often can influence other...	Apr 05, 2012
Making Colorectal Cancer Screenings a Priority Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the leading cause of cancer deaths among...	Aug 08, 2013
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
One Size Doesn't Fit All It all begins with data. When you slice and dice the numbers, African Americans with diabetes in Wisconsin are four times more likely than...	May 13, 2013
Payment Reform Pilots in Wisconsin Health care providers, insurers, and employers have joined together through the Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform to create...	Sep 01, 2011
Payment Reform Pioneers Deliver on Value Health care providers are increasingly being paid based on the value of the services they provide instead of the quantity, in the hopes...	May 22, 2014
Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups to Improve Performance A team of researchers led by Dr. Geoffrey Lamb, MD, professor of internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, published their...	Mar 21, 2013
Quality Field Notes: Data Reporting Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...	Dec 13, 2013