Promoting Promising State Initiatives in Pursuit of a High Performance Health System
Award Amount:
$235,715
Approval Date:
July 12, 2005
Start Date:
August 1, 2005
End Date:
July 31, 2006
National Academy for State Health Policy
50 Monument Square, Suite 502
Portland, Maine 04101
Principal Investigator:
Alan Weil
State innovations in health policy and practice are often overlooked by other states and the federal government, due in large part to a lack of comparative information available on these initiatives. For this project, the investigators will collect and present information on initiatives each state is undertaking relative to the Commission on a High Performance Health System's goals. The team will produce a report and a Web-based tool allowing easy access to this information by topic and by state. These resources should help to encourage and facilitate adoption of promising state and federal policies that could improve health system performance.