National Committee for Quality Assurance
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NCQA, with a grant from Pioneer, will evaluate a new measurement tool that focuses on improving the health outcomes of patients with heart disease and diabetes.
Quality of Care
Americans receive only about half of the recommended care they should receive. Adopting quality improvement strategies, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, and changing how care is delivered at the local level can improve the care all Americans receive.
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Introducing a New Way to Measure Health Care Quality
April 18, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
With support from Pioneer, NCQA and Archimedes, Inc., will develop and test the Global Cardiovascular Risk (GCVR) score over the coming months.
NCQA To Test Pioneering Way to Measure Quality, Foster Wider Use of Prevention Strategies
April 9, 2013 | News Release
NCQA and RWJF announced a new approach to measuring quality that will provide a more sensitive gauge of risk factors and make it possible to create clinically meaningful incentives for providers to improve disease prevention.
Does Health Information Technology Improve Quality of Care?
July 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Many industries have lowered costs and improved quality through investments in information technology. The health care sector, however, has been slow to follow suit.
Enhancing Health Care Quality with Complexity Science
November 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Plexus Institute supported two networks of scholars and clinicians to raise awareness about complexity science and develop strategies for using it to address key challenges in health care.
Improving the Health and Health Care of All Americans: A Film About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
August 7, 2009 | Video
The RWJF story is told through the eyes and voices of the people with whom we work most directly.
RAND Develops Web-Based Tool to Help Patients Assess Quality of Care, Obtain Additional Services
May 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
From 2004 to 2005, staff at the RAND Corporation developed a framework for a Web-based tool to help patients understand the quality of health care they are receiving and provide them with information to obtain additional health care services.
Identifying Ways That Health Systems Can Deliver Better Care at a Lower Cost
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Innosight Institute conducted case studies of seven integrated health systems to find out how their staffs thought, acted, and innovated and to identify ways that other health systems could deliver better care at a lower cost.
Project ECHO
January 30, 2013 | Grantee
A force multiplier: Spreading medical knowledge, expanding health care capacity.
Project ECHO Brings Complex, Chronic Care to Veterans
July 11, 2012 | Feature
Department of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation join in announcing first nationwide implementation of innovative medical care and knowledge-sharing model.