Resources, Links and Newsletters

• MEMBERS ONLY RESOURCES

• Data Briefs and Other Publications
  
  Diabetes Recommendations (ACQT Work)
  
  You can also view an online version here
  
  Data Brief #4 - Review of Hospital Quality Information
  
  Past Data Briefs:

• AMBULATORY CARE / DIABETES Click Here to view/Download Data Brief #3
  
  PATIENT EXPERIENCE Click Here to view/Download Data Brief #2
  
  HOSPITAL QUALITY Click Here to View/Download Data Brief #1
  
  

   

• Metrics and Measures

Resources on metrics and measures for employers:

Patient-Centered Medical Home Performance Metrics for Employers

The cost of poor quality - Includes discussion of metrics/measures for performance

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; The Alternative QUALITY Contract

Center for Health Value Innovation: Outcomes-Based Contracting

NCQA Quality Calculator; Measure the impact of poor quality on costs as an employer

CONSUMER DISCLOSURE PROJECT - Important Resource Regarding Improving Health Care Performance Through Public Reporting; Includes resources for understanding the implications of health reform legislation for quality improvement and transparency;  Supported by a number of employer groups and business coalitions.

• New Toolkit from the Business Group on Health
  "Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care"
  This is a nice web-based toolkit that may be valuable for your organizations.  It covers:

  • Teaching an organization’s workforce the basics of health care quality and the importance of evidence-based information;
  • How to choose quality care and make wise use of money spent on health care;
  • Tips for getting good quality care before, during, and after a health care appointment; and
  • Help in using the Internet to find health information you can trust
    

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• Newsletters

- March/April 2010
- Jan/Feb 2010
- Nov/Dec 2009
- July/August 2009
- May/June 2009
- e-Newsletter, June 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- November 2008

• Presentations
   - Cyndy Nayer - Value-Based Benefits Workshop
   - Dennis White - Value-Based Benefits Workshop
  
   - Ron Whiting - 2008 Health Care Round Table Presentation

• Publications of Interest
  - National Priorities Partnership:  National Priorities and Goals
  - National Priorities Partnership: Summary
  - NRHI: From Volume to Value; Transforming Health Care Payment and Delivery
  - NRHI: Summary

• Health Care Coalitions

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• Other Documents
   - Membership Forum:  Summary of the September 15th Forum

 

• Strategic Priorities

  • Common Framework / Common Language

  • Transparency: Quality and Cost Issues

  • Utilization

  • New Models of Care / Disease Management

  • Value-Based Benefits

• General Health Care Policy and Reform

 

Health Care Coalitions

National Business Coalition on Health

• Health and Productivity: The Business Imperative

Mid-America Coalition on Health (Kansas City)

Dallas Fort Worth Group on Health

Florida Health Care Coalition

Greater Spokane Incorporated

HealthCare 21 Business Coalition (Tennessee)

Health Action Council (Cleveland)

Maine Health Management Coalition

Memphis Business Group on Health

Puget Sound Health Alliance

Tri-State Business Group on Health (Evansville, IN)

Virginia Business Coalition on Health

The National Business Coalition on Health

 

Transparency: Quality and Cost Issues

WhyNotTheBest.org:  Quality reporting website

A Health Plan Work In Progress:  Hospital-Physician Price and Quality Transparency

Doing Well by Doing Good: Improving the Business Case for Quality

Hospital Compare

Behind the Numbers: Medical Cost Trends for 2009 (Price Waterhouse Coopers)

The LeapFrog Group

Evidence of a Need for Change by Michael Millenson

Examples of Transparency Efforts

• Methodist Health System (Houston)
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (New Hampshire)

Utilization

The Dartmouth Atlas

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in Michigan

Supply Sensitive Care

Preference Sensitive Care

Underuse of Effective Care


New Models of Care / Disease Management

Patient Centered Care Collaborative

PCCC - Purchasers Guide

TransforMED - American Academy of Family Physicians

Bridges to Excellence

A Primary Care Paradigm Shift

Make Doctors Agents of Health Cost Controls (Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar: Boston Globe, July 21, 2008)

Getting What We Pay For: Innovations Lacking in Provider Payment Reform for Chronic Disease Care; Center for Studying Health System Change

Primary Care Crisis

The Primary Care Conundrum

Quality, Cost and Connected Health

Medical Homes - And Medical 'Home Runs'?

 

Value-Based Benefits

Health and Human Services - Value-Driven Health Care Home

Benefit Design Innovations: Implications for Consumer-Directed Health Care

EMPAQ - Standardized Metrics for Health & Productivity Management

 

General Health Care Policy and Reform

Uwe Reinhardt - Letter in New Jersey Commission on Rationalizing Health Care Resources
 (well worth reading as an overview of why American Health Care is the way it is)

Link to New Jersey Commission for Full Report

The Health Care Blog