RWJF Games to Generate Data Challenge

help patients access better health care using publicly available inpatient and outpatient measures of health care quality from the Aligning Forces program. Following up on the great success of the first ... data that can be incorporated into the Aligning Forces data set. Gamification has been an increasingly ...

Feb 22,2013

Community Care Teams Key to Maine Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot Project

(QC), and the Maine Health Management Coalition announced that 50 primary care practices from across the ... Patient-Centered Care ... applications for each available opening in the pilot program from primary care practices throughout Maine. The ...

Mar 21,2013

(Webinar Recording) Got ED Overuse? Learn How One Community Successfully Redirected Patients to Primary Care Medical Homes

Journal of Health Care Finance. (Webinar Recording) Communities across the country ...   (Webinar Recording)   Communities across the ... ED patients to sites better suited to provide primary care.  This webinar, hosted by AF4Q's ...

How Health Care Costs Affect Small-Town Living

Fri, 2014-02-21 Health care costs are measured in trillions of dollars ... understand. China, Maine, a small town with just over 4,500 residents, has started a ripple effect across the country and is spreading the word about the rising costs of health care and its impact upon ...

Feb 11,2014

Paying for Health Care: What’s Working Today, and What Does the Future Hold?

on aligning incentives across consumers, health care providers, health care payers, and health care ... Tue, 2014-06-24 Health care payment reform is critical to employers and other health care purchasers looking to contain health care costs and get greater value for their ...

Jun 24,2014

Got ED Overuse? Learn How One Community Successfully Redirected Patients to Primary Care Medical Homes (Webinar)

Communities across the country are struggling with the consequences of avoidable emergency department (ED) use and how to connect ED patients to sites better suited to provide primary care.  This webinar, hosted by AF4Q's HIT Resource Center and presented by members of the Milwaukee Health Care ...

How do practice coaches support practices in making organizational changes necessary to improve care?

and assumptions that individuals bring to a group setting. Maintenance includes structural issues ... Improving Prevention in Primary Care PCPAG Webinar, June 2011 “IHI Primary Care Practice Coach Development program” ...

Oct 17,2013

Improving Language Services: February 2012 Quality Forum

set of measures that are fully realized when effective and proven practices are spread across an ... The Improving Language Services measures are part of a standardized set of measures that are fully realized when effective and proven practices are spread across an entire hospital (including ED and ...

Improving Care Through Screening and Public Reporting

a dozen physicians and nurses, worked together over six months to select a set of proven best ... insurance. Publicly reporting this information helps shine a light on this issue so providers and care ... Partners with Consumer Reports to Publish Health Care Ratings Payment Reform Pioneers Deliver ...

Jul 31,2014

The Importance of Preparing for Change

across the continuum of quality improvement, the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, the AF4Q initiative leader in Oregon, is transforming the future of ambulatory care. Quality Corp’s Patients and ... Ambulatory Care ...

Feb 06,2013