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June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This case study involved a regional QI initiative to improve delivery of care to people with diabetes. Pay for participation may be a viable strategy to promote quality improvement in primary care practices.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Increased investments in transparency—particularly of health care cost and resource use information—are meant to address the challenges of rising costs and inefficient care.
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
This brief offers a snapshot of physicians’ views on having access to this kind of information themselves and having this information available to the public.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Challenges to measuring population health exist, but as these authors note, attempting to measure the overall health of populations allows public health leaders to better allocate resources to areas of greatest need.
April 25, 2011 | Program Result
"We made sure we developed both centralized and individualized curricula that addressed the needs expressed by each participating site" in the Vermont Better Jobs, Better Care project, said the project director.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article presents an overview of the Survive and Thrive Program, a training program designed to help new local health officials develop the knowledge and skills to succeed at their work.