Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve the Value of Health Care by Solving the Cost and Quality Quandaries?

Explores proposed models and configurations of accountable care organizations, which combine provider payment and delivery system reforms, and their potential to slow the rise of healthcare costs. Outlines key issues and program features under debate

The State of Quality Improvement Science in Health

Outlines the origins and evolution of the field of quality improvement in health care, current evidence of effectiveness, issues for further research, promising directions, and needed steps to build capacity for quality improvement research and practice

Innovative Medicaid Initiatives to Improve Service Delivery and Quality of Care: A Look at Five State Initiatives

Outlines initiatives in Alabama, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington to implement patient-centered medical home models designed to coordinate and improve quality of care; strategies; key lessons; and new opportunities under healthcare reform

Will the Patient-Centered Medical Home Transform the Delivery of Health Care?

Explores various definitions of the medical home model, its components, rationale, effect on primary care, issues for implementation such as costs and payment methods, evidence of effectiveness, and healthcare reform provisions promoting it

Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service innovations in health care and public health

HeadlineEvaluating service innovations in health care and public health requires flexibility, collaboration and pragmatism; this collection identifies robust, innovative and mixed methods to inform such evaluations.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from the National Institute for Helath Research via http://dx.doi.org/10.3310/hsdr0416