Safety-Net ACOs Hold Promise to Achieve the Triple Aim

Care Across Settings Ambulatory Care Equity ... health. (Ambulatory Care, Care Across Settings, Equity) ...

Jan 21,2015

(Ambulatory Care, Measurement & Reporting) ... comparative data on health care costs and resource use, it is important to understand the perspective of all ... conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) with seven primary care physicians and ...

Jan 30,2013

How 10 High-Achievers Do It in Minnesota

Ambulatory Care ... percent.   Read the entire article here . (Ambulatory Care, Measurement & ... care their patients were getting between 2010 and 2013. The practice hired care coordinators, created a ...

Aug 22,2014

(Ambulatory Care, Patient-Centered Care) ... practice, patient-centered health care should fit the unique needs and preferences of individual patients, instead of a “one size fits all” approach. As many communities are striving to achieve this model of care ...

May 21,2012

A Community's Approach to Reducing Readmissions

Care Across Settings Mon, 2013-02-11 (All day) As part of AF4Q, hospitals, ambulatory care ... hospital readmission are important outcome measures for assessing the performance of the health care ...

Feb 11,2013

Removing Blind Spots: Seeing All the Data Supports High-Value,Patient-Centered Care

leads to meaningful improvement in the delivery of patient care.   Determined to provide meaningful information and advance the quality and affordability of health care in its state, the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Quality Corp) supported the implementation of the Oregon Health ...

Dec 19,2012

Minnesota is Transforming Healthcare

from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey ... primary care were prescribed aspirin 34.8% of the time. These results made me wonder what the rate ... ischemic vascular disease called Optimal Vascular Care (OVC) at www.MNHealthcare.org . OVC requires ...

Apr 18,2013

Why does consumer engagement matter?

Understanding Consumer Engagement (Ambulatory Care, Consumer - Consumer ... “vote” through their choice of providers and services and take responsibility for their own self-care.    The goal is to help all stakeholders…understand how better information about health care ...

Oct 02,2013

AF4Q: Who We Are, What We Do

care system. For the past six years, AF4Q has brought together 16 geographically, demographically, and ... for health care transformation. Our ideas and initiatives have led to improvements in how health care ... have come together to: Create new and more effective, efficient models for delivering care ...

Jul 31,2014

Driving Quality Improvement in Family Practices

its ambulatory quality improvement (AQI) learning collaborative Quality Transformation in Practice ... improvement team, creating “care teams”); care management (new roles and responsibilities for non-MDs, ... visits); and planned visits intended to help with improving the ambulatory patient experience domain of ...

Aug 07,2013