Delivery System Redesign

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has created a software product, MONAHRQ, that enables state and local data organizations, Chartered Value Exchanges, hospital systems, and health plans to input their own hospital administrative data and generate a data-driven website.

 

The Alliance for Health Reform has created an interactive map that shows select community quality initiatives in the United States.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launced their new site healthindicators.gov on April 15, 2011.

The brief outlines models for ACO's to be designed under the regulations released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In August 2010, a team of researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), as part of the Community Tracking Study (CTS), visited the Lansing metropolitan area to study how health care is organized, financed and delivered in that community.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the proposed rule on ACOs March 31, 2011.

This paper presents a vision for a transformed delivery system; highlights key federal resources to help achieve this vision; explores the core elements of delivery system reform; and offers specific examples of health centers and states that are partnering to design and implement innovative models of health care.

This paper highlights the challenges of transforming small primary care practices, how Medicaid can offer shared supports to providers or catalyze them into investing in modernized systems of care, and what else federal and state governments can do to help advance these efforts.

This brief looks at efforts to pilot Patient-centered medical homes in eight regions of New York.

The white paper by Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, reviews five presentations that were delivered at a conference on payment reform in the fall of 2010.