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March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2002, researchers with the RAND Corporation assessed the quality of care delivered to a large sample of patients living in 12 U.S. communities. This work provided the first national snapshot of health care quality in the United States.
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
That Americans get only half of recommended care is not an easy message to deliver - or for people to receive. RAND researchers undertook an intensive communications campaign in hopes that their "bad news" would spur changes in health care policy.
October 1, 2011 | Report
What it takes to be an innovative, high-performing health system today.
October 1, 2011 | Report
This paper focuses on Sentara Healthcare headquartered in Norfolk, Va. Sentara's mission is "to improve health every day" by offering health care at all levels, ranging from community health and primary care to hospital and nursing home services.
April 1, 2011 | Report
Grand Valley Health Plan has served the greater Grand Rapids, Mich,, area for nearly 30 years as a regional, for-profit integrated delivery system, specializing in primary care with a guiding focus on wellness and prevention.
February 1, 2011 | Report
Group Health (GH) serves 600,000 members through its health plan. It has 1,000 employed physicians, 60 percent of whom are specialists, with the rest in primary care.
December 1, 2010 | Report
In this case study, the authors summarize the most important lessons in the case of Presbyterian Healthcare Services.
September 1, 2010 | Report
Lancaster General Health does not own a payor, but it operates as a clinically integrated delivery system with Lancaster General Hospital as its keystone.
August 1, 2010 | Report
Disruptive innovations in health care have the potential to decrease costs while improving both the quality and accessibility of care. This first case study focuses on HealthPartners, America's largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization.
January 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, Waltham, Mass., hosted a three-day conference, March 5-7, 1998 at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., on the role of regulation in a market-oriented health care system.