CEO Champions Wellness Program is Winning Over Maine

gaining momentum. Spearheaded by Nancy Morris, communications and member services director of Maine Health ... improvement their organizations achieve in one year. Teams also get points for assisting each other. Each team ...

Aug 13,2013

multiple initiatives to improve the quality of care while lowering costs in their communities. As part of ... price of service or out-of-pocket cost to the consumer, and general or specific to an insurer and ...

Mar 12,2014

Cost & Quality Data: Meaningful Displays for Consumers

initiatives to improve the quality of care while lowering costs in their communities. As part of this effort, ... price of service or out-of-pocket cost to the consumer, and general or specific to an insurer and ...

Mar 11,2014

Primer/Brief Local initiatives are showing how new methods for paying for health care can improve quality and control costs. One strategy, called bundled payment, assigns a fixed payment to cover a set of services, such as ...

Jun 11,2013

Maine Shifts Health Focus To Community

community care teams are improving quality and patient outcomes while reducing overall health care costs. ... but also linking patients to services like food banks and mental health case workers. Results from the ...

Feb 25,2014

Expanding "Hot Spotting" to New Communities

work improving health care in one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in the country. At ... compounded by diverse social issues. By providing and coordinating the medical care and social services these ...

May 01,2012

Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care

Alliances in integrating patients and families into quality improvement efforts, especially in ambulatory ... Envisioning Your Ideal Clinic (or Patient Experience, Service, Program): A Team Exercise ...

May 14,2015

Safety Net in Greater Cleveland Demonstrates What Is Possible with Medicaid Expansion

improved 9 percentage points (relative improvement 18 percent), and standards for outcomes improved 7 points (relative improvement 28 percent). While some measures improved more than others, improvements ... improvements in good blood pressure control (3 points or 5.5 percent relative improvement) that were associated ...

May 07,2014

Finding Value in Data

in data analytics and discussed products and services stakeholders might see value in and buy. Phil Kalin at the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), which administers and all-payer ... Phil Kalin is the president/CEO of the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC). CIVHC is a ...

Jun 06,2013

(Webinar Recording) Got ED Overuse? Learn How One Community Successfully Redirected Patients to Primary Care Medical Homes

of Wisconsin and State, County and City health agencies.  Its mission is to improve health care ... Foundation HIT Development Fund award to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and is a 2010 recipient of the American Hospital Association’s NOVA Award for its efforts to improve community health. ...