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On the Road to Better Value: State Roles in Promoting Accountable Care Organizations
Outlines how accountable care organizations can deliver value through incentives to manage utilization, improve quality, and curb cost growth. Profiles states supporting the model with data, new payment methods, accountability measures, and other efforts
Providing Underserved Patients With Medical Homes: Assessing the Readiness of Safety-Net Health Centers
Surveys safety-net health centers' potential to become patient-centered medical homes based on eight change concepts to improve care delivery, efficiency, and health outcomes. Outlines challenges, areas for improvement, and strategies for transformation
Evaluation Report: NH Multi-Stakeholder Medical Home Pilot
The New Hampshire Multi-Stakeholder Medical Home Pilot was initiated in 2008 by the New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative as a collaborative effort of its Medical Home workgroup, the Center for Medical Home Improvement and the four private New Hampshire Health Plans: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, CIGNA, Anthem, and MVP Healthcare, as well as NH Medicaid. The goal of the pilot was to value, prescribe, and reward medical care that is tightly coordinated and of superior quality and efficiency
Patient-powered research networks: building capacity for conducting patient-centered clinical outcomes research.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) recently launched PCORnet to establish a single inter-operable multicenter data research network that will support observational research and randomized clinical trials. This paper provides an overview of the patient-powered research networks (PPRNs), networks of patient organizations focused on a particular health condition that are interested in sharing health information and engaging in research. PPRNs will build on their foundation of trust within the patient communities and draw on their expertise, working with participants to identify true patient-centered outcomes and direct a patient-centered research agenda. The PPRNs will overcome common challenges including enrolling a diverse and representative patient population; engaging patients in governance; designing the data infrastructure; sharing data securely while protecting privacy; prioritizing research questions; scaling small networks into a larger network; and identifying pathways to sustainability. PCORnet will be the first distributed research network to bring PCOR to national scale
State Implementation of National Health Reform: Harnessing Federal Resources to Meet State Policy Goals
Discusses state options for maximizing coverage and access to care; reforming the health insurance market; holding insurers accountable for high-quality, affordable coverage; restructuring healthcare delivery and financing; and cutting budget deficits
Comparison of Provisions from Colorado's Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform and Federal Health Care Reform
A new issue brief commissioned by The Colorado Trust, and authored by the two lead staff members of the Colorado's Blue Ribbon Commission on Healthcare Reform (the 208 Commission), Tracy L. Johnson, PhD, Health Policy Solutions and Sarah Schulte, MHSA, Schulte Consulting, shows that there is significant agreement between our state's recommendations and the new federal law
Montefiore Medical Center: Integrated Care Delivery for Vulnerable Populations
Describes a system of hospitals and community- and school-based clinics tailored to low-income patients through systemwide strategies, high-quality specialty and hospital care, and integrated care delivery via care management and information technology
Strengthening Primary and Chronic Care: State Innovations to Transform and Link Small Practices
Presents case studies of state policies for reorganizing and improving primary and chronic care delivery among small practices, including leadership and convening, payment incentives, infrastructure support, feedback and monitoring, and certification
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