Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

March 12th, 2013
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Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

January 1st, 2013
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Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

October 8th, 2012
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Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

August 20th, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

August 6th, 2012
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Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

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Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

July 2nd, 2012
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Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

July 2nd, 2012
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The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

February 1st, 2012
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Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...

January 1st, 2012
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AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

January 1st, 2012
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Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

January 1st, 2012
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Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

January 1st, 2012
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In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

December 1st, 2011
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

November 15th, 2011
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This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

November 1st, 2011
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The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

November 1st, 2011
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In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

October 1st, 2011
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The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

October 1st, 2011
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The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

September 29th, 2011
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Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

September 1st, 2011
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This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

April 1st, 2011
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This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

January 1st, 2011
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This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future h...

May 1st, 2010
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A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

December 3rd, 2009
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The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

July 31st, 2009
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The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

February 1st, 2009
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