Breakout 3 - Driving Quality Improvement

Across care settings, AF4Q Alliances have used data to systematically build and improve the local quality ... ALIGN - A Summit on Increasing Value in Health Care ... Alliances operating in diverse health care markets that leveraged timely, actionable data to drive ...

Jul 07,2014

Driving an Aligned Agenda for Quality Improvement

reform, and maximize improvement across a geographic area. Improving health care quality and value ... care quality and value. Alliances can facilitate alignment by identifying and prioritizing variations or gaps in quality, setting goals, and supporting stakeholders in implementing mutually reinforcing ...

May 14,2015

simple, implementing a different way to pay for care across health systems and communities is a complex ... 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

Anything But Routine- Lovelace Westside Hospital Transforms Care at the Bedside

Patient-Centered Care ... meaningful patient interaction or evaluating and improving patient satisfaction. The care team at ... determined to devote the time and attention necessary to improve the quality of care and patients’ ...

Dec 17,2012

professionals, government and philanthropy developed a set of high-level recommendations outlining the next steps ...

Aug 01,2011

alliances better target efforts to improve care delivery; and (3) assist state agencies across the country ... Primary care is at a crossroads. Practices are transforming from procedure-based, physician-centric care delivery to more advanced primary care models that put patients and their families at the center. These ...

Aug 16,2012

Introduction

payment reform, cost reduction, and care across settings. Alliances also established and pursued ... 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 ...

May 18,2015

Community Measurement (MNCM) developed a set of measures for diabetes care called the D5 , which illustrates ... health care and provide models for national reform. The latest topic in this series focuses on public ... pioneered the implementation of these types of organizations, and successfully transformed health care ...

May 18,2015

Quality Field Notes: Public Reporting

work to transform local health care and provide models for national reform. The latest topic in this ... successfully transformed health care delivery systems, increased public reporting, and lowered costs in 16 communities across the country.   Two case studies highlight lessons learned from Aligning Forces ...

May 18,2015

March 2015 | Total Cost of Care

total cost of care at medical groups across the state. Costs from more than 1.5 million patients were ... better understand health care cost variation across their own regions and provider groups, and also make ... This edition of Spotlight showcases examples of AF4Q's work on the total cost of care ...

Mar 24,2015