Greater Boston
The Aligning Forces for Quality November 2011 National Meeting wash held in Washington DC and was broken up into three distinct tracks: Payment, Care Across Settings, and Cost. View video highlights on discussions and lectures below!
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To ensure that patients who need medical interpreter services are served as quickly as possible, Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, part of the Boston AF4Q alliance, has replaced beeper dispatching with an innovative use of hand-held technology. Staff medical interpreters now carry iPod Touch devices which alert them each time new requests for language services are made. The interpreters take cases from a digital queue while the intranet-net based dispatching system tracks their work flow in real time. Requests are sent only to the appropriate interpreters – for example,...
On April 1, 2011, the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence merged with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, in order to enlarge the scope of their effort to improve quality health care in the Boston Massachusetts region. The integration furthers efforts in measurement and reporting, consumer engagement, and will better position Massachusetts Health Quality Partners to fulfill its mission of being a premier source of health information to the public sphere.
The Aligning Forces for Quality initiative in Greater Boston is operated by Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) and is governed by a Leadership Team including over 35 Greater Boston-area organizations and stakeholder representatives. MHQP is a nonprofit, broad-based coalition that has been collecting and reporting on health care quality information for providers and the public since 1995.
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