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

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 Partnership, will describe the Partnership's ED Care Coordination Initiative.  This Initiative uses ...

   

Peer-to-Peer Comparisons Spur Improvements in Minnesota

Measurement & Reporting Hospital Care ... used within the community to make a difference,” added Chase.  (Hospital Care ...

Dec 18,2013

What role do employers play in improving care quality?

buyer of health care . Some employers have leveraged their considerable market power to push for improvements from hospitals and health plans, but most employers typically exert very little control over the ... improve care at a manageable cost.    “Successful businesses negotiate hard to drive a ...

Oct 02,2013

2012 eHI Annual Conference Cancer, Heart Disease and Diabetes: Improving Care Through eHealth

">With all the talk about meaningful use, accountable care, ICD-10, etc., it's easy to get caught in ... target="_blank">Cancer, Diabetes and Heart Disease: Improving Care Through eHealth will include speakers and ... "Coordinating Care for Cancer Patients with eHealth Tools". Speakers will include:

   

Multicare Health System TCAB Team Improves Patient Engagement

Hospital Care ... patient involvement.  (Hospital Care) ... their own care. The TCAB team at Multicare Health System embraced this call to action by developing a ...

Jul 13,2012

What are some ways consumers can help improve health care?

are hospitalized less, seek fewer doctor appointments, and save $4 for every $1 they spend in care ... As the end users of health care, consumers are in a unique position to understand what ... communities improve health care quality. The way they’re doing this is taking many different forms.   ...

Oct 02,2013

May (Consumer Engagement, Hospital Care) ... print advertising to launch a public information campaign about how to get the right care at the right ... warranted a visit to an emergency department (ED) or an urgent care facility, clearly struck a chord with ...

May 21,2012

Small Tests of Change Grow to Big Results in Reduction of ED Overuse

Hospital Care ... partnership’s creation was overuse of hospital emergency departments (EDs) for primary care and ambulatory ...   (Hospital Care) ...

Dec 20,2012

Improving Transparency in Health Care Costs

percent of the $2 trillion in annual health care spending in the U.S. is duplicative or unnecessary. This includes spending on unproven treatments, ineffective drugs, and unnecessary hospitalizations that can be a ... troublingly little relationship to good health care outcomes. Improving health care and reducing unnecessary ...

May 07,2014

Find MI Care is Improving Access and Reducing Readmissions

appointment, and more.   Benefits of Find MI Care go beyond the patient. Hospitals, physicians, and ... Ambulatory Care ... up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and the number is still rising. The ...

May 07,2014

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