Health Leads: Treating the Cause Not the Illness
August 10, 2011 | Story
For families that struggle to meet basic needs like adequate food or housing, clinical care is only part of the solution.
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Office-Based Physicians Are Responding To Incentives And Assistance By Adopting And Using Electronic Health Records
July 9, 2013 | Journal Article
Expanding the use of interoperable electronic health record systems to improve health care delivery is a national policy priority.
Understanding Why Patients Of Low Socioeconomic Status Prefer Hospitals Over Ambulatory Care
July 8, 2013 | Journal Article
Patients with low socioeconomic status (SES) use more acute hospital care and less primary care than patients with high socioeconomic status.
Better Care, Better Health, Lower Cost
January 30, 2013 | Report
Cuyahoga County had fewer hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions between 2009 and 2011 (a cost savings of $20 million.)
Pay for Performance Improves Quality Across Demographic Groups
July 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This article evaluates quality and the effect of pay for performance among minority patient groups, during a pay-for-performance program in 22 primary care practice sites.
If Consumers and Purchasers Could Compare Health Care Quality, What Would It Do to Health Care?
June 10, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.
Referral and Consultation Communication Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians
January 10, 2011 | Journal Article
Physicians need help enhancing communications to other physicians about patients' medical history, chronic conditions and the results of consultations.
Physicians Slow to E-Mail Routinely with Patients
October 7, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief highlights that only 34 percent of office-based physicians have the capability to e-mail patients. Of those, fewer than one in five regularly e-mail their patients.
Primary Care and Health Outcomes Among Older Patients with Diabetes
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Veterans who visited VA facilities with longer primary care wait times had significantly lower primary care utilization compared with veterans who visited VA facilities with shorter primary care wait times.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Results Report
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.