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September 17, 2012 | Program Result
The FRESH-Thinking project at Stanford University, directed by Victor Fuchs and Ezekiel Emanuel, sponsored a series of meetings in 2007–10 that addressed policy options essential to all health reform proposals.
July 11, 2012 | Program Result
Health Care for All, a Boston-based consumer advocacy organization, worked to give consumers a voice in implementing state health reform legislation that expanded insurance coverage in Massachusetts, and in reforming its payment systems.
December 16, 2011 | Program Result
RWJF published monthly snapshots of how confident adults feel about their financial access to health care, based on data collected by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and analyzed by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program launched in 2006 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) offers a window on real world experience in initiatives to engage consumers as integral participants in promoting public reporting and advancing quality improvement.
June 16, 2011 | Toolkit
This set of email templates can assist Alliances in engaging prospective and current consumer representatives in all aspects of AF4Q, moving them from awareness, to understanding, to buy-in and finally, to activation.
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
This installment of LegalNotes focuses on the concept of "meaningful use" of electronic health records and the key considerations that will underlie proposed rules.
March 1, 2010 | Report
The Aligning Forces for Quality evaluation is investigating capacity building within the AF4Q alliances. The purpose of this research summary is to present preliminary findings on this topic based on qualitative data collected from interviews conducted with key stakeholders in four AF4Q alliances that were early entrants to the initiative.
June 1, 2009 | Report
Former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle and Bob Dole recently completed The Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care, a two-year consensus-building process resulting in a new plan for reforming America's health care system.
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.
July 1, 2010 | Toolkit
"On-boarding materials" to assist with recruiting and orienting consumer representatives to the work of Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q).