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AHRQ announces a new Health Care Innovations Exchange LinkedIn group 
for professionals interested in health care innovation and quality improvement. Join us and participate in discussions, share insights and experiences, and learn from others. In order to join the group, you must have a LinkedIn account.
AHRQ announces a new Health Care Innovations Exchange LinkedIn group for professionals interested in health care innovation and quality improvement. Join us and participate in discussions, share insights and experiences, and learn from others. In order to join the group, you must have a LinkedIn account.
Community-Wide Initiatives To Enhance Access for Vulnerable Populations Opciones del administrador
Read the new biweekly issue, which includes a patient's story about...
What's New | February 12, 2014Indiana Health Information Exchange Provides Daily Alerts About Hospital Visits To Help Reduce Utilization and Costs
In a pilot test, the alert program helped a managed health plan improve quality and lower costs by significantly reducing nonurgent ED visits, replacing them with lower cost primary care ...Statewide Health Information Exchange Provides Daily Alerts About...innovations.ahrq.gov
A statewide health information exchange provides health plans and accountable care organizations with daily alerts on patients visiting the...Carlotta R., Tom F. y 1 persona más recomiendan estoHospital Uses Data and Predictive Modeling To Identify and Allocate Scarce Resources to High-Risk Patients, Leading to Fewer Readmissions
The program has reduced readmissions and costs for congestive heart failure patients; preliminary, unpublished data suggest similar trends among patients with the other targeted ...Hospital Uses Data Analytics and Predictive Modeling To Identify and...innovations.ahrq.gov
A safety net hospital employs a software application that uses electronic health record data and predictive modeling to identify and allocate...Study Outlines Strategies to Boost Staff Buy-in During PCMH Transformation
Authors of a study recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine sought to understand and illustrate how practices undergoing patient-centered medical home (PCMH) transformation ...When a family medicine practice adopts the patient-centered medical home as a care model, that practice often undergoes change that impacts every member of its staff. That's according to recently published research that sought to understand and...Tom F. recomienda estoUsing Actionable Data To Improve Quality and Reduce Costs
Today's new biweekly issue features profiles about organizations that provided specific, actionable data to health plans and providers to support quality improvement efforts, leading to ...What's New | January 29, 2014 innovations.ahrq.gov
Using Actionable Data To Improve Quality and Reduce Costs Lack of adequate, timely information poses a challenge for health care organizations and frontline providers in their quality improvement efforts. Access to useful data on health care...- To learn more about key factors that influence the success of innovation scale-up and spread efforts, read a new article by Innovations Exchange Editorial Board member Brian Mittman, ...
Factors That Influence the Scale Up and Spread of Innovations innovations.ahrq.gov
By Brian Mittman, PhD, Senior Advisor, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support; Senior Scientist, Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California; Member, Innovations...Schiffon W. recomienda esto Program Uses Multicomponent Strategy Including UV Cleaning Device To Reduce Potential Spread of Dangerous Infection
A program at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center significantly improved the thoroughness of room cleanings and reduced the proportion of rooms with positive cultures and the ...Performance Feedback, Ultraviolet Cleaning Device, and Dedicated...innovations.ahrq.gov
A multifaceted program featuring education and feedback, ultraviolet room disinfection devices, and a dedicated housekeeping team...Tom F. recomienda estoWellness and Health Promotion Programs Use Financial Incentives To Motivate Employees
To learn more about new trends in employee wellness programs, read our interview with Ryan Picarella, MS, SPHR, President of the Wellness Council of America and John Riedel, MPH, MBA, ...Wellness and Health Promotion Programs Use Financial Incentives To...innovations.ahrq.gov
By the Innovations Exchange Team Introduction: Increasingly, employers are providing wellness and health promotion programs to reduce their health care costs. Seeking to engage employees in improving their health, many employers offer financial...Making the Business Case to Persuade Healthcare Decisionmakers to Adopt Innovative Practices--
Most of our innovators are scientists or medical practitioners who have been successful in developing a combination of clinical and systemic innovations that solve an mportant local ...People think, plan, decide, and dream in stories, so storytelling comes naturally to human beings.
Steve Denning, in this Health Care Innovations Exchange interview, observes- "If you look closely at any business leader who has successfully initiated change, you will find a capable ...Applying Storytelling to Health Care Innovation: An Interview With... innovations.ahrq.gov
By the Health Care Innovations Exchange Team Innovations Exchange: Why is storytelling such a powerful communications tool? Steve Denning: People think, plan, decide, and dream in stories, so storytelling comes naturally to human beings. This is...Why Reinvent the Wheel?
Breaking new ground in quality improvement processes can be challenging. The purpose of this group is to facilitate change by providing a forum for learning, sharing, and discussion ...About the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchangeinnovations.ahrq.gov
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Health Care Innovations Exchange is a comprehensive program designed to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care delivery. This program supports the Agency's mission...
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