Puget Sound Alliance Granted $3.4 Million to Continue Price and Cost Transparency Work

federal grant to make health care pricing more transparent through the establishment of a statewide data ... been focusing on measuring hospital, medical group, and clinic performance; public reporting; and value in health care in a five-county area in western Washington.  This new project will be an extension of ...

Oct 31,2013

Humboldt County's Our Pathways to Health

sense of well-being. Further, alumni of the program are hospitalized less, seek fewer doctor appointments, and save a reported $4 for every $1 they spend in care. Learn more about this program here . ...

Feb 01,2012

(Webinar) Physicians Are NOT Using Quality Data in Making Referrals: A Roundtable Discussion on What CVEs Might Do About It

Michael Rothberg will kick off the Webinar with sobering findings on the black box of referral practices of primary care physicians. What exactly can CVEs -- and health plans and practice managers -- do ... and hospitals? John Freedman will discuss communication and marketing strategies to engage physicians, ...

MONAHRQ 5.0 Release Webinar

and to audiences who have medical training or technical knowledge of health care Hospital profile pages that include an overview of each hospital (e.g., location and map, size, website address), ...   MONAHRQ 5.0 is new software, available for free from AHRQ, to create health care reporting ...

in identifying and reducing disparities in health care Outline key decision points that ... racial and ethnic minorities often receive lower-quality health care than white patients, regardless of ... high-quality, equitable care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified the following framework: ...

Oct 14,2011

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

Choosing Wisely® recommendations finds that patients in Washington may be exposed to care they don’t ... medical leaders from the largest health care organizations in the state. The task force is co-sponsored by the Alliance, the Washington State Medical Association and the Washington State Hospital Association. ...

Sep 26,2014

Starting a Conversation about Value

pay for service toward bundled care, hospitals will need to consider value of care. Resource use is a ... Wed, 2013-05-08 (All day) The intensity of health care services received has much to do with rising health care costs. Many health conditions have many treatment options, some ...

May 09,2013

Developing a Consumer Engagement Strategy

high-quality health care provider or hospital, or interacts with a clinician at an office visit. For some ... Safe, high-quality, accessible patient-centered health care is essential to helping individuals ... health management relies most on his or her actions outside the health care system. These may include ...

May 14,2015

'Lean' Teams Build Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Patient-Centered Care Wed, 2012-12-19 (All day) Thanks to health care reform, the idea of patient ... Johnson’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial ...

Dec 19,2012

Healthy Memphis Common Table Releases Report on Health Equity

in Clinical Care and Health Outcomes in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, which purposefully brought together those who provide care, pay for care, and legislate care to create a plan to address ... Methodist North and Methodist South Hospitals, reminded the standing-room-only crowd of the Rev. Martin ...

Feb 29,2012