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Data Challenge Winners Announced
RWJF announced winners of the AF4Q Games to Generate Data Challenge and the Hospital Price Transparency Visualization Challenge.
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Better Information Systems for Better Care
Driven by federal financial incentives, providers are increasingly adopting health information technology (HIT) in meaningful ways, according to researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Mathematica Policy Research, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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The Aligning Forces for Quality Experience
Activities in each of the 16 Aligning Forces for Quality communities are guided by a multistakeholder alliance of consumers, providers, and payers. This article in Health Affairs describes how the Aligning Forces for Quality investments have evolved since the initiative’s launch in 2006 and offers some early lessons learned.
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What Works to Improve Care?
A new collection of success stories from the front lines of American health care provides free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care. This library of innovations is based on years of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded hospital and community-based health care quality improvement initiatives.
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Diverse Groups Forge Consensus on Spending
The Partnership for Sustainable Health Care, a coalition of diverse national organizations, developed recommendations for curbing health care spending and improving quality, ranging from shedding fee-for-service payment, to rewarding states that slow the growth in spending with some of the savings.
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Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q)
Our signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform.
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Quality Field Notes: Reducing Inappropriate Emergency Department Use
Hospital emergency departments (EDs) are indispensable to the acute health care system. Yet, 70 percent of ED visits are not emergencies, or could be prevented with effective and timely outpatient care.
Reform in Action
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) shares lessons and resources from its efforts to elevate the quality of health care in 16 regions around the country in a series of Reform in Action suites:
Promsing Practices
Promising Practices
A collection of success stories on quality improvement from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.
Care About Your Care
Care About Your Care
A national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality of care.
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Video updates from Quality/Equality programs and initiatives.