Health Care Innovations Exchange: State Health Care Legislation and Statewide Initiatives

Health Care Innovations Exchange: State Health Care Legislation and Statewide Initiatives

Health Care Innovations Exchange: 

State Health Care Legislation and Statewide Initiatives

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 09/26/2012 12:21 PM EDT

New Issue Focuses on State Health Care Legislation  and Statewide Initiatives

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the September 26 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov). The featured policy Innovations describe four different state programs— one that reduced hospital-acquired infection rates, one that supported the  development of patient-centered medical homes, one that improved services  for persons with mental illness, and one that increased nurse staffing levels in hospitals. The featured QualityTools include: a toolkit for state health care reform, materials  for reducing avoidable rehospitalization, and an online dashboard about state initiatives in health information technology. Read more innovation profiles related to statewide initiatives  (http://go.usa.gov/r6Wj) on the Innovations Exchange Web site,  which contains more than 725 searchable innovations and 1,500 QualityTools. Spotlight: New Expert Commentary Lessons Learned From the New York Law Mandating Hospitals to Report on Infections http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/content.aspx?id=3686&tab=2 . Events and Podcasts: Thank you for joining the Innovations Exchange for the  September 25 Webcast, Vermont Blueprint for Health: Working  Together for Better Care. The video featured during this Web event is available at http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/webevents/index.aspx?id=44 . Transcripts from the August 29 and September 13 TweetChats on  Change are available at http://go.usa.gov/rJzd. View the latest issue and search for Innovations and QualityTools using your phone or tablet on the new mobile site http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/issue.aspx. New issues of the Innovations Exchange are published biweekly on Wednesdays. Please contact us at info@innovations.ahrq.gov with any questions or comments. Follow the Innovations Exchange (AHRQIX) on Twitter with this hyperlink: http://www.twitter.com/ahrqix.