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Podcast Spotlight
May 18, 2012
by Sandy Hausman
"Accountable care is a shift in focus from payment for units of service to payment for taking good care of patients over time," explains The Dartmouth Institute's Elliott Fisher, M.D., in this episode about accountable care organizations, or ACOs. Through interviews with Dr. Fisher and Commonwealth Fund experts, Sandy Hausman explores how ACOs will change the way we think about care and how we pay for it.
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E-forum Slide Show Spotlight
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August 1, 2011
In this presentation, Tom Bodenheimer of the University of California San Francisco and Berdi Safford of the Family Care Network discuss the value of teams in creating continuity in care, as well as how the teams function in practice. The two speakers gave the talk at the March 2011 meeting of the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative.
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May 18, 2012 -
"Accountable care is a shift in focus from payment for units of service to payment for taking good care of patients over time," explains The Dartmouth Institute's Elliott Fisher, M.D., in this episode about accountable care organizations, or ACOs. Through interviews with Dr. Fisher and Commonwealth Fund experts, Sandy Hausman explores how ACOs will change the way we think about care and how we pay for it.
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May 3, 2012 -
In this presentation, David Squires, senior research associate for the International Program in Health Policy and Innovation, uses Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data to explain why the U.S. spends more on health care than other industrialized countries.
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March 14, 2012 -
A new Commonwealth Fund report ranks 306 local areas across the U.S. on indicators of health system performance. Watch for report highlights and commentary from report coauthor Cathy Schoen of The Commonwealth Fund.
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March 14, 2012 -
This episode looks at a new scorecard on local health system performance from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, and how communities can use its data to improve.
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