Breakout 5 - The "Buy Side": Leveraging Purchasing Power

Data on patient centered medical homes from @HealthBridgeHIO - used to improve primary care. #hcvalue #af4q Once again, hearing language like: respect, ...

Jul 07,2014

AF4Q Featured in Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. Blog Post

reform. According to the blog post, “given their track record since 2006 for improving community health ... partners, including multi-payer stakeholders, in a neutral way to develop collaborative solutions to improve health care delivery. As data service providers, regional alliances can support state efforts ...

Mar 13,2015

National Program Office

financing of health care services and the use of quality improvement methods to improve patient care ... George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services serves as the national program ... million commitment to improve the quality and equality of health care nationwide. Graham also holds an ...

Jan 09,2012

What are the key skills and behaviors to look for when hiring a practice coach?

another service setting • Experience in participating in quality improvement teams, familiarity ... practice coaches have a significant foundation of quality improvement knowledge and expertise, as well as a ... emotional intelligence than the candidate's quality improvement experience. An enthusiastic, ...

Oct 16,2013

With limited resources, how do you deploy practice coaches most effectively?

deploying practice coaches to work one-on-one with a practice) while maintaining a quality improvement ... the role of the coach, the maturity of the practice in improvement processes and other key contextual factors, as well as the availability of improvement networks such as a learning collaborative.   • ...

Oct 17,2013

State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS)

assistance to support state efforts to enhance the quality and value of health care by improving population health and reforming the delivery of care services. SHVS connects states with experts and their peers to develop tools to undertake new quality improvement initiatives. The program places an emphasis on building ...

Patients and Families as Leaders in Health Care

doing to improve communications. When the advisors found out about a little known telephone service that ... to join Providence Medical Group’s Patient & Family Advisory Council to help improve care for ... input and perspectives are helping to shape health care programs and improve communications for other ...

Aug 23,2011

act to improve the product or service for consumers. Prices fall, value rises, and the economy expands ... consumers, usually drive demand for health care services. Employers and other purchasers of care should be ...

Jul 08,2013

Looking Forward

for consumers, as they contain data on what was actually paid for all services and procedures from a ... not represent total costs for the service or procedure and thus is less useful to consumers. Whether ... focus their work on providing consumers and employers with products and services to manage health care ...

May 14,2015

Report Measures Quality of More than 80 Medical Groups and 300 Clinics

Community Checkup report, “the result of a collaborative effort to improve the quality and affordability of ... Preventive Care Appropriate Use of Services Generic Drug Usage The full report can ...

Sep 02,2011