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December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
An exploration of physician organizations' administrative changes and changes in health promotion practices found that physician organizations employ no standard set of health promotion practices, and that health promotion practices and organizational structure evolve over time.
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
In communities nationwide, AF4Q alliances are developing interventions and pilot-testing techniques to improve the way ambulatory care is delivered and fundamentally changing their local health systems.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Most larger U.S. medical practice groups have some strategy in place to treat patients' tobacco dependence. But few have instituted a broad, multistrategy effort as recommended by Public Health Service guidelines, according to this survey-based study.
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Even for a large insurer with a significant market share, the reliable measurement of performance is challenging due to data limitations, according to this study. This suggests mechanisms must be developed for multiple stakeholders to collaborate an ...
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The use of organized chronic illness care management processes (CMPs) is discussed in this article.
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) provides small, primary-care practices with tools, support, coaching and a collaborative learning environment in which they can assess their performance and engage systematically in improvement activities. Th ...
September 1, 2011 | Report
This article explores the indirect, or spillover, health care effects of a high uninsurance rates. Working-age adults with private insurance living in areas with a high rate of uninsurance were less likely than their peers in areas with a low uninsurance rate to have a usual source of care, an office-based visit, and any medical care expenditures.
May 14, 2009 | Journal Article
Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staff spend interacting with health plans. Participants in this national study spent an average of $68,274 per physician per year interacting with health plans.
January 7, 2009 | Story
While there is slow adoption of the patient-centered-medical home (PCMH), the largest of the large medical groups have the most comprehensive PCMH infrastructures.
September 19, 2011 | Program Result
In 2009 and 2010, researchers at UCLA and RAND measured the impact of high local rates of uninsurance on access to care and the quality of care among adults with health insurance.