Care About Your Care—Special Edition

one of their key strategies for addressing quality, cost, and efficiency and, in doing so, are ... coordinated. Poor care coordination frequently results in unnessesary and costly hospital readmissions. The United States health care system has long struggled with this issue; ultimately it costs the system $17 ...

Feb 12,2013

(Measurement & Reporting) ... to facilitate improvement. Physicians—interviewed as part of related research on displaying cost and resource use information—reported that trends in costs, resource use, and quality measures provide ...

May 21,2012

PCPs drive reduction in Cleveland hospitalizations

Measurement & Reporting ... Care, Measurement & Reporting, Practice-based Coaching) ... estimated $20 million in health care costs. Cuyahoga County experienced 2,624 fewer hospital stays than ...

Apr 15,2013

Quality Field Notes: Regional Collaboratives Can Improve the Value of Local Health Care

Measurement & Reporting Patient-Centered Care ... here . (Ambulatory Care, Measurement & Reporting, Patient-Centered Care, Payment Reform) ... systems, increased public reporting, and lowered costs in 16 communities across the country.   ...

Feb 19,2015

Quality Field Notes: Public Reporting

Measurement & Reporting ... here . (Measurement & Reporting) ... successfully transformed health care delivery systems, increased public reporting, and lowered costs in 16 ...

May 18,2015

First Statewide Report in Nation to Measure Choosing Wisely® Recommendations Finds Overuse and Widespread Geographic Variation

Measurement & Reporting ... (Measurement & Reporting) ... unnecessary care that costs money and could potentially put them at risk. Variation exists. Often the ...

Sep 26,2014

(Measurement & Reporting) ... information that go into public reports of quality performance data. Improving quality and reducing costs ...

Aug 01,2011

(Measurement & Reporting) ... delivery systems, increased public reporting, and lowered costs in 16 communities across the country. ...

May 18,2015

A Community's Approach to Reducing Readmissions

quality and reduce costly hospital readmissions. Most of the AF4Q’s 16 Alliances indicated efforts to report readmission rates as one of their key strategies for addressing cost and efficiency. Rates of ... States are frequent and costly. Reducing hospital inpatient readmissions is a key strategy for improving ...

Feb 11,2013

Data Aggregation: What's the ROI?

clinical, and/or patient experience data as a path toward achieving financial sustainability. The costs and ... href="https://gwuedu.webex.com/gwuedu/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=46562437&rKey=fceb399c3fb326ab">https://gwuedu.webex.com/gwuedu/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=46562437&rKey=fceb399c3fb326ab Description:  AF4Q alliances are considering ways to aggregate administrative, clinical, and/or patient experience data as a path toward achieving financial sustainability. The costs and ...