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Patient-Centered Medical Home Building in Greater Cincinnati
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Published: Apr. 30, 2011
As the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care for primary care physicians continues to gain momentum in the nation as a way to promote high quality and cost effective care, a new gro...
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Centering on the Patient: How Electronic Health Records Enable Care Coordination
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Published: Jul. 26, 2011
Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered an essential ingredient of care coordination by Medical Homes; however, detailed descriptions of how it actually happens in real life are rarely f...
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Your Health Matters Report Grows
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Published: Aug. 22, 2011
YourHealthMatters.org, a community-based website that reports and compares how physician practices perform in Greater Cincinnati, has re-launched with a new design and expanded public performanc...
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Detroit Report on Quality Shows Improvement in the Delivery of Care.
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Published: Sep. 02, 2011
In 2008, the Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC) launched its online physician organization performance public report, now available at www.myCareCompare.org. A preliminary review of GDA...
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A Model for the Rest of Us: Using Quality Measurement to Promote Value
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Published: Sep. 02, 2011
The performance measurement and public reporting for the Maine AF4Q alliance is spearheaded by the Maine Health Management Coalition (MHMC) and provides a great example of using community-level ...
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Report Measures Quality of More than 80 Medical Groups and 300 Clinics
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Published: Sep. 02, 2011
In August, 2011, the Puget Sound Health Alliance, one of 16 communities in the Aligning Forces for Quality project, released its annual Community Checkup report, “the result of a collabora...
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Dimensions of Value: A Look at Resource Utilization in Puget Sound
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Published: Sep. 02, 2011
The Puget Sound Health Alliance released its first major report on resource utilization for high-volume hospitalizations. The report was created by analyzing data for highly utilized hospital se...
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Minnesota Depression Measures are NQF endorsed
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Published: Sep. 06, 2011
In Minnesota, the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) has worked on managing depression for more than a decade. Its groundbreaking DIAMOND (Depression Improvement Across Minnesota,...
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Patients Benefit From Becker Clinic's Push on Diabetes
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Published: Sep. 06, 2011
In 2008, CentraCare, a clinic in Becker, Minn, was not pleased with its percentage of patients who were receiving optimal care. Just 5% of their diabetes patients were receiving proper care as o...
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Getting the right data
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Published: Sep. 15, 2011
To evaluate and reduce disparities in health care, health care providers and the organizations that work with them on quality improvement require certain data that can only be collected from pat...
