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February 2015 | Patient Engagement

Consumer Engagement Patients want care that helps them manage their health and ... of regional health improvement collaboratives, and health care consumer advocates—anyone interested ... A Collaborative Approach to Health Care on the Redwood Coast ...

Feb 18,2015

August | 2013—Moving Beyond "Widgets"

coordinated care, health care improves. Payment Reform—The Linchpin of Health Care Reform ... paying for appropriate, preventive, and coordinated care, the health of Americans can improve. ...

Aug 05,2013

August 2014 | Quality Improvement

improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups. Quality is directly ... The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, an Aligning Forces for Quality Alliance, has been ... Certain patients present a health care conundrum. “Super-utilizers” account for only ...

Aug 12,2014

Collecting and Using Cost Data

from their experiences in collecting and reporting cost data and in reducing health care costs? Over ... , instead of addressing cost or prices directly. Alliances included a set of health care cost or efficiency measures in their public reports with the goal of increasing transparency in health care costs. Alliances ...

May 14,2015

Data and Policy

issues around payment reform efforts. Legislation to compel health plans to provide cost data and for ... from anti-trust issues. Additionally, starting in 2016, health plans in Washington will be required to ... useable format for analysis. Timely data should include enough detail to support patient care and quality ...

May 14,2015

the Bexar County program. The Bexar County Jail Diversion Program and Crisis Mental Health System offers an example of how a joint effort involving the medical, legal, and mental health ... can ease the burden of crowded jails. The Center for Health Care Services created the diversion ...

May 21,2012

Health Insurance Exchanges

David McGuire of Partners HealthCare System, Inc., took up the issue of cost, saying that health care ... Policy, where she spent 5 ½ years on a range of health  policy, federal policy, and legal issues ... then heard the employers’ perspective from health care consultant Steve Wetzell, who pointed out that ...

Jun 06,2013

Health Information & the Law

provides timely analyses of key health information law and policy issues.  It also allows user to see and ... reform, including higher quality health care, more efficient care delivery, new payment models, improved ... HealthInfoLaw.org is a comprehensive resource of federal and state laws relating to the use ...

May 14,2015

Spotlight on Washington

Foundation’s signature effort to lift the quality of health care in 16 diverse communities, reduce racial and ... , give care, and pay for care to work together toward the shared goal of better health and health care ... Quality Field Notes: Regional Collaboratives Can Improve the Value of Local Health Care ...

Apr 06,2015

Spotlight on Maine

Foundation’s signature effort to lift the quality of health care in 16 diverse communities, reduce racial and ... , give care, and pay for care to work together toward the shared goal of better health and health care ... A Holistic Approach to Improving Health Care ...

Jun 18,2014

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