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September 5, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule on the Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to qualify as meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs) and receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
November 9, 2009 | Presentation Material
On November 9, 2009, Foundation President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey delivered a keynote address before the National Business Coalition on Health.
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This policy brief addresses antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief highlights the work of the High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative that is working with key stakeholders to make consistent and useful information about the quality and cost of health care widely available to patients, physicians, hospitals, health insurers and others.
January 1, 2012 | Grantee
New online resource charts federal and state laws governing health information.
November 21, 2011 | Journal Article
The revised Medicare Shared Savings Program makes concessions and compromises to encourage a fundamental effort at health system change.
June 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
In 2004, a group of regional collaboratives established the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to accelerate the formation and effectiveness of such collaboratives across the country.
May 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This brief developed by the Legal Barriers team reviews provisions in the Affordable Care Act that address the issue of disparities reduction.
June 17, 2010 | Report
Practical ways to successfully manage the multifaceted implementation challenges inherent with payment reform initiatives, using lessons learned from previous efforts.