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practice, patient-centered health care should fit the unique needs and preferences of individual ... some like Kansas City, serving a diverse population, are further challenged by racial and ethnic disparities ... Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC) partnered with Swope Health Services, a federally qualified health ...

May 21,2012

A Patient's Story: Integrating Equity in PCMH

Wed, 2012-05-23 In practice, patient-centered health care should fit the ... communities are striving to achieve this model of care, some like Kansas City, serving a diverse population ... Swope Health Services, a federally qualified health center and one of the city’s major safety net ...

May 23,2012

Developing a Consumer Engagement Strategy

Safe, high-quality, accessible patient-centered health care is essential to helping individuals ... health management relies most on his or her actions outside the health care system. These may include diet, exercise, taking medication, monitoring health markers, and learning about, seeking, and ...

May 14,2015

Quality Field Notes: Equity

work to transform local health care and provide models for national reform. The latest topic in this series focuses on improving equity in health care. In 2009, the excess health care costs associated with disparities were estimated at $60 billion. A review of health quality data shows race and ethnicity continue ...

Jul 01,2014

Background

delivery reform, and is necessary to achieve population-level improvements to health care costs, quality, ... The U.S. health care system is large and complex, with multiple stakeholders—patients and ... groups, such as consumers, are traditionally excluded from discussions of health care quality improvement. ...

May 14,2015

in identifying and reducing disparities in health care Outline key decision points that ... racial and ethnic minorities often receive lower-quality health care than white patients, regardless of ... interventions targeted to specific patient populations. Furthermore, the collection of R/E/L ...

Oct 14,2011

State-Based Payment Reform Models

Pay-for-Performance, Episode-based payment, population-based payment and global budgets. The webinar will include references to additional resources for states interested in payment reform. Bailit Health ... employee health benefit purchaser leaders a primer on payment reform and the knowledge needed to engage in ...

   

Primary Care Use Driving Down Costs, Improving Care

new health care coverage program called CarePlus by the end of 2013. Several AF4Q partners in the Better Health Greater Cleveland Alliance enrolled 28,294 uninsured patients in CarePlus, with a goal ... Summarizing across all enrollees, MetroHealth estimates total costs of services that are approximately $50 ...

Jul 31,2014

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the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and ... U.S. population. What we do Can bringing together the people who give care, ... Patients are playing a crucial part in transforming health care; New models for care delivery ...

May 03,2011

Minnesota Releases Nation’s First Total Cost of Care Data for Medical Groups

populations: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, Medica and PreferredOne. The health care ... Minnesotans $750 million in health care costs annually.   Total Cost of Care is a National Quality ... health and ancillary costs. NQF is considered the gold standard of health care measurement.   ...

Jan 07,2015

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