Quality Improvement

In outpatient and inpatient settings, nurses are central to the quality of care delivered to patients. The Foundation will continue to emphasize the importance of engaging nurses to lead quality improvement initiatives.

When Moneyball Meets Medicaid

May 16, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post

New York State Commissioner of Health Nirav Shah is the Billy Beane of health care. Let me explain.

Community-Level Interventions to Collect Race/Ethnicity and Language Data to Reduce Disparities

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This paper examines the experience of 14 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) alliances (data from additional alliances that joined the AF4Q initiative in 2009-2010 are not included in this analysis). This study’s target population included AF4Q allia ...

Leveraging Existing Patient Survey Efforts

November 1, 2012 | Toolkit

This decision guide offers a detailed discussion of the issues and choices stakeholders typically will face when using the leveraged approach.

Lightning Strikes Datapalooza

June 5, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post

Mike Painter describes the journey for two medical students who won $100,000 in the Aligning Forces Developer Challenge at the Health Datapolooza Conference.

We're Glad You Could Join Us at Health Data Initiative III: The Health Datapalooza!

June 5, 2012 | Story

RWJF became one of the founding organizations of the Health Data Consortium, which was formed to encourage the creation of a health data ecosystem that promotes and accelerates the innovative use of health data.

Data-Driven Management Strategies in Public Health Collaboratives

March 1, 2011 | Journal Article

This article demonstrates a data-driven management approach to implementing quality improvement in public health collaboratives.

Hospitals Collect Race, Language and Ethnicity Data But Do Not Use it to Improve Quality of Care

July 29, 2009 | Program Result Report

Telephone surveys show how acute-care hospitals collect data on race, ethnicity and language and whether and how they use that data to improve quality of patient care.

Achieving the Potential of Health Care Performance Measures

May 21, 2013 | Report

In this issue paper, the authors give an overview of performance measurement in U.S. health care, and then make seven policy recommendations aimed at improving the performance measurement enterprise.

Local Legal Infrastructure and Population Health

October 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This article examines the association between legal structures and population health indicators to better understand law’s contribution to community health.