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State Strategies to Improve Quality and Efficiency: Making the Most of Opportunities in National Health Reform
Examines ten states' initiatives to address key components of quality and efficiency improvement, including data collection, aggregation, and standardization; public reporting; payment reform; consumer engagement; and provider engagement
Reforming Health Care Delivery Through Payment Change and Transparency: Minnesota's Innovations
Examines Minnesota's healthcare delivery system reforms, with a focus on legislation that included a health improvement program and enhanced coverage for the low-income uninsured. Discusses public and private initiatives, accomplishments, and challenges
Oregon: Round 1 - State-Level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network ---- with 36 states and 61 researchers ---- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, the Brookings Institution, and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.Oregon has taken an overwhelmingly affirmative response to the ACA, as evidenced by its enthusiastic development and implementation of Cover Oregon and its decision to expand Medicaid. In fact, it is one of six states to receive a Model Testing award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which will support continuing efforts to transform its health care delivery system through innovative methods
The Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration: Lessons Learned on Improving Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
Discusses the experiences of ten large practices earning performance payments for improving the quality and cost-efficiency of health care delivered to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries
Enhancing Value in Medicare: Demonstrations and Other Initiatives to Improve the Program
Examines Medicare's efforts to be more proactive in the purchase of appropriate, high-quality, and efficient health care for its beneficiaries, and provides an overview of Medicare pilot programs and initiatives in chronic care and provider performance
Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs
Presents strategies, best practices, and lessons learned from ten states' efforts to advance the medical home model of comprehensive and coordinated care in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs in order to improve quality and contain costs
Driving Value in Medicaid Primary Care: The Role of Shared Support Networks for Physician Practices
Examines the challenges of transforming small primary care practices under healthcare reform and options for Medicaid to drive changes through practice supports to help implement and sustain new models of care or catalyze investments in new systems
Organizing for Higher Performance: Case Studies of Organized Delivery Systems
Offers lessons learned from healthcare delivery systems promoting the attributes of an ideal model as defined by the Fund: information continuity, care coordination and transitions, system accountability, teamwork, continuous innovation, and easy access
Colocating Health Services: A Way to Improve Coordination of Children's Health Care?
Based on a literature review and interviews, outlines the benefits, costs, and issues of pediatric practices' co-location with other providers and services. Examines strategies, structures, and levels of integration, as well as barriers to implementation
Creating Technology-enhanced Practice: A University-Home Care-Corporate Alliance
Insuring full benefit of consumer health informatics innovations requires integrating the technology into nursing practice, yet many valuable innovations are developed in research projects and never reach full integration. To avoid this outcome, a team of researchers partnered with a home care agency’s staff and patients and their corporate parent’s Information Systems and Research group to create a Technology-Enhanced Practice (TEP) designed to enhance care of home bound patients and their family care givers. The technology core of TEP, the HeartCare2 web site, was built in a collaborative process and deployed within the existing patient portal of the clinical partner. This paper describes the innovation and the experience of bringing it into full operation
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