September 17, 2012
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The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute furthered the development and pilot testing of its Prometheus bundled payment model. Researchers at RAND and the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the initiative at three pilot sites.
August 30, 2012
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Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, and Mathematica Policy Research produced reports and journal articles on the adoption and use of electronic health record systems among physicians and hospitals.
May 1, 2012
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In 1997, researchers surveyed more than 22,000 public and private employers nationwide about the cost and benefits of the health insurance coverage they offered to workers and published findings in some 20 peer-reviewed articles.
March 19, 2012
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Under Healthcare for Communities, researchers tracked changes in the organization and financing of alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services, and the impact of those changes on individuals' access to care and the quality and cost of that care.
March 19, 2012
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Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
March 13, 2012
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Researchers at America's Health Insurance Plans conducted four surveys of health insurance plans from 2003 to 2011 to chart the extent to which the plans collected and used data on the race, ethnicity, and language of their enrollees.
March 12, 2012
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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
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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.
December 12, 2011
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IHI expanded and enhanced its Open School for Health Professions to close the gap between what health care employees need to know about quality improvement and what traditional curricula teach.
December 12, 2011
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Researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center and a multicultural research network managed by the University of California, Los Angeles, studied disparities in health and access to care in Latino and other minority populations.
