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Patients Are The Sun: The Imperative For Consumer Engagement In Transforming Health Care
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Good And Bad News For Diabetes Prevention In The Community
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Patients Are The Sun: The Imperative For Consumer Engagement In Transforming Health Care
On January 15, Community Catalyst , a national consumer health advocacy organization, launched its Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. The event drew more than 150 leaders in health care...
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Using Travel As A Teaching Tool, And A Lever For Change
Foundations seeking to drive systems change in health care have a powerful method they can use to educate health system leaders. The Nicholson Foundation has found that sponsoring out-of-state, or even out-of-country, learning trips is an especially effective...
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Closing The Rural Health Connectivity Gap: How Broadband Funding Can Better Improve Care
Broadband access is not usually highlighted in policy prescriptions for improving outcomes and lowering costs of health care. But it is a prerequisite for a range of technologies that can provide more cost-effective and higher-quality care, such as video...
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Good And Bad News For Diabetes Prevention In The Community
The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes among high-risk populations (people already obese or inactive or diagnosed as having prediabetes)...
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Oregon Bridges The Gap Between Health Care And Community-Based Health
It is now commonly accepted that to achieve health, the U.S. health system must address the social determinants of health. While the integration of health care with social services and public health is happening relatively infrequently across the country...
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An Interview With George Halvorson: The Kaiser Permanente Renaissance, And Health Reform’s Unfinished Business
For decades, health policymakers considered Kaiser Permanente the lode star of delivery system reform. Yet by the end of 1999, the nation’s oldest and largest group model HMO had experienced almost three years of significant operating losses, the first...
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Why Has ACO Growth Slowed?
Both public and private organizations have been aggressively pursuing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as a way to improve health care outcomes, lower health care costs and improve patient satisfaction with care. With substantive industry interest...
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Hospital Progress To Meaningful Use: Status Update
After languishing in the single digits for many years, hospital EHR adoption rates are dramatically increasing. A major driver is the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, or the “Meaningful Use” program. A recent Health Affairs study suggested...
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Pioneer ACOs Year One: On The Path To A Learning Health Care System
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services yesterday announced results from the first performance year of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model . The Pioneer Model should be seen as part of a crucial phase of testing alternative payment...
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Health Insurance Exchanges: Improving Health Care Access And Quality
When the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange began planning how to offer comparative information about health care insurance options, the organization turned to the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, a nonprofit regional health improvement alliance...
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Accelerating Innovation At The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services
Innovation has revolutionized medicine. Technology enables us to peer into the depths of the human body to diagnose disease, offer life-saving pharmaceutical treatments, and unlock the power of genomics to help predict, diagnose and treat disease. Innovation...
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Gilfillan To Head CMS Innovation Center
Richard Gilfillan, MD, will be the new Acting Director of the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMI,” or “Innovation Center”) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS Administrator Don Berwick...
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