The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

June 10th, 2014
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There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

April 16th, 2014
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This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

April 9th, 2014
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The April issue of Health Services Research journal is now available. Covering topics in variati...

April 1st, 2014
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A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. ...

March 17th, 2014
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This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

February 26th, 2014
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This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

September 1st, 2013
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This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

August 1st, 2013
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Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

June 26th, 2013
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Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

May 10th, 2013
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There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

April 18th, 2013
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This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

December 1st, 2012
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Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

November 16th, 2012
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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

November 8th, 2012
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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

November 1st, 2012
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Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

November 1st, 2012
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The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

November 1st, 2012
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This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

November 1st, 2012
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AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

October 30th, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

October 2nd, 2012
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Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

October 1st, 2012
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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

August 1st, 2012
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The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

August 1st, 2012
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This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

August 1st, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

August 1st, 2012
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This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

June 1st, 2012
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The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

March 28th, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

January 1st, 2012
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Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

December 20th, 2011
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The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

December 1st, 2011
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The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

October 1st, 2011
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In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

October 1st, 2011
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This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

October 1st, 2011
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This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

October 1st, 2011
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This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

August 1st, 2011
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Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

July 29th, 2011
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The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

September 1st, 2010
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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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Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...

April 2nd, 2009
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This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

April 1st, 2009
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This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and sugges...

October 1st, 2007
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This article argues that policy actions must focus on income security, education, housing, food s...

October 1st, 2007
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This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...

March 1st, 2003
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This article traces the historical progression of the population health approach as part of healt...

March 1st, 2003
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This article proposes a definition of population health and differentiates the concept from publi...

March 1st, 2003
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