What are the differences and similarities between consumer advocates and individual consumers?

Consumer Representation (Ambulatory Care, Consumer - Consumer Engagement) ... to improve health care quality in their communities.    Individual Consumers   A consumer is an individual who has personal experience with the health care system, either as a ...

Oct 02,2013

(Ambulatory Care, Measurement & Reporting, Health Information Technology (HIT)) ... customized for improving the practices’ quality of care for diabetes. Speakers addressed the ...

Jan 31,2012

Evolve: Bringing Data to Life for Healthier Communities

Ambulatory Care ... efforts.   (Ambulatory Care, Measurement & Reporting) ... Health Care Foundation released a report of surgical rates of 13 procedures for selected hospital ...

May 07,2014

The DOCTOR Project Is...In

Ambulatory Care Measurement & Reporting ... (Ambulatory Care, Measurement & Reporting) ... delivering high-quality health care. The project will be led by MN Community Measurement, the leader of the ...

May 21,2014

Improvement

have efforts in place to measure patient experience with ambulatory care before the launch of the AF4Q ... the national landscape related to surveys of patient experience with ambulatory care has evolved in ... survey that asks about care retrospectively over a period of six or 12 months. Over time, the leveraged ...

May 14,2015

Addressing Health Disparities

to stratify both ambulatory and hospital care performance measures. If outcomes are different, then ... identify any gaps in health care among different populations.    The Institute of Medicine’s 2002 report “Unequal Treatment” catalogued consistent evidence of disparities of care provided in the ...

Aug 07,2013

Alliances, are working to improve consumer awareness of and interest in health care quality and motivating providers to improve through publicly reporting on quality measures. An important component of ambulatory ... comprehensive picture of how well medical practices are providing patient-centered care. Publicly reporting such ...

Jan 29,2014

Quality Teams Making Quality Improvements

2013-11-04 (All day) An ambulatory quality improvement (AQI) learning collaborative in New Mexico, Quality Transformation in Practice (QTIP), is helping primary care practices (PCPs) bring about improvements in overall diabetes care, including checking blood pressure, blood sugar ...

Oct 30,2013

Introduction

lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, as well as reduce racial and ethnic ... scope (multiple areas of focus), and the ramifications of major health care legislation enacted during ... engagement, patient experience, ambulatory quality improvement, hospital quality improvement, disparities, ...

May 18,2015

Bringing Consumers to the Table

engaging patients in improving ambulatory care improves provider-patient communication, identifies and ... Forces for Quality was engaging the people who get care—patients and their family members, consumers, and ... health and health care. Organizations of all types are recognizing that it is not enough merely to ...

May 14,2015