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In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve outcomes and reduce health care costs.The committee developed this report advocating hospitals to become more “activist” in their orientation and move “upstream”—that is
Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organizations working to improve health and health care, is ready to pursue the Triple Aim.
This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to prioritize prevention in the US health care system.
This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elements of population health: 1) information-powered clinical decision-making; 2) primary care-led clinical workforce; and 3) patient engagement and community integration.
This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and discusses how provisions in the Affordable Care Act will impact population health.
This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related IRS requirements.
This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five address how to conduct a community assessment. Related toolkits are included.
Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of potentially avoidable hospitalizations for certain uncontrolled comorbidities and incurred higher Medicare expenditures compared with matched controls without dementia. It appears to make the…
Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a dialysis unit for patients with renal disease.
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonprofit teaching hospital located in Washington, D.C.