Clinical Integration
This is the first in a series of issue briefs highlighting data from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016 – April 2017.
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north region, has been engaged in primary care-behavioral health integration for the last 30 years. However, the organization began implementing a formal system of integration based…
AHA Special Bulletin: White House Releases FY 2019 Budget Request with Medicare, Medicaid Reductions
President Trump today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2019.
The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment recently released a summary from its October symposium on how to enhance interprofessional learning and practice in hospitals and other clinical learning environments.
Overview
Hospitals: The Changing Landscape is Good for Patients & Health Care, March 2012
Report: A Critique of Recent Publications Claiming Provider Market Power, October, 2010
Executive Summary
Case Examples
Building Quality into RIte Care: How Rhode Island Is Improving Care for Low-Income Residents
Improving Continuity of Care for Chronic Conditions: The Texas Medication Algorithm Project
Disease Management: Florida's MediPass Program
Center on An Aging Society
Commonwealth Fund
Center for Healthcare Strategies: Improving Care for Adults with Chronic Illness and Disabilities
Health Affairs, The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been heralded as a promising model for improving the quality of care and reducing unnecessary costs through coordination and collaboration among providers. The concept envisions a transformation in the way that care is organized and delivered across the…
Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine ministries and create a new, nonprofit Catholic health system.