Activities in each of the 16 Aligning Forces for Quality communities are guided by a multistakeholder alliance of consumers, providers, and payers. An article in Health Affairs describes how the Aligning Forces for Quality investments have evolved since the initiative’s launch in 2006 and offers some early lessons learned.
A report from the Urban Institute provides an overview of performance measurement in U.S. health care, and includes policy recommendations aimed at improving the performance measurement enterprise.
As health care costs continue to affect employers’ bottom lines, growing evidence that payment reform strategies can help control costs is spurring employer purchasers to switch how they pay for care. A set of briefs from AcademyHealth explain different strategies, share results and lessons learned from employers pioneering these projects, and offer tips for employers.
In this set of papers, American Enterprise Institute scholars consider various market-based approaches to reforming the fee-for-service Medicare program—the “800-pound gorilla of American health care.”
A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that hospitals and their community allies made little progress from 2008 to 2010 at reducing hospital readmissions for elderly patients. The report also chronicles a series of in-depth interviews with patients and providers that shed light on why patients end up back in the hospital and what hospitals, doctors, nurses, and others are doing to limit avoidable readmissions.
While the need to address racial and ethnic disparities in care is well known, few strategies for reducing disparities have been studied systematically. A supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine, organized by researchers at Finding Answers, offers organizations a new "roadmap" for reducing disparities.
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June 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Partnership for Prevention conducted research to identify high-value evidence-based clinical and community preventive services.
December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. States collect billions of dollars in tobacco revenue from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxeswith less than two cents of every dollar going to fight tobacco use.
October 24, 2008 | Program Result Report
The National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine recruited and trained scholars to serve as teachers and advisers for health centers in the federal Health Disparities Collaboratives program.
July 11, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board worked to revise and pilot test a newly created Indian Community Health Profile, which local tribes can use to assess the health status of the tribal community and monitor its progress over time.
April 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
The University of California, San Francisco, examined ways in which different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups might fare in the event of an influenza pandemic and recommended approaches to reducing inequities and adverse health outcomes.
November 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The Partnership for Prevention conducted a series of surveys and focus groups with employers to determine to what extent employer-sponsored health insurance plans offer coverage for clinical preventive services or promote their use.
September 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
E. Richard Brown, Ph.D., led a team of researchers in fielding a new Housing and Neighborhood Environment module as part of the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).
March 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The National Minority Health Month Foundation created a minority health status database and used it to determine whether different outcomes were related to minority versus non-minority ZIP codes.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The journal Health Services Research published a supplemental issue designed to educate researchers on a range of social and other non-medical factors that influence health, including social and economic status, ethnicity and race.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry worked to revise their prototype patient education program - Video Doctor - so that patients can operate it independently in their physicians' offices.