The Commonwealth Fund Connection
The Commonwealth Fund Connection serves as a roundup of Fund publications, charts, and multimedia added to the Commonwealth Fund Web site in the last two weeks, and also offers links to other timely content.
Local scorecard coming soon; recommendations for safety-net hospitals; and more.
The relationship between hospital admission rates and rehospitalizations; the aftermath of the super committee; final regulation on medical loss ratio reporting and rebates; and more.
The Innovation Center at one year; final rules for ACOs; eliminating central line–associated bloodstream infections; and more.
Workers' share of health insurance premiums up 63% from 2003 to 2010; an international perspective on "meaningful use"; and more.
Impact of new health insurance tax credits; the new wave of health care innovation; disease management programs in Germany; and more.
National scorecard on health system performance gives U.S. a 64 out of 100; accountable care organizations come into focus; and more.
Ensuring equity for vulnerable populations; elderly minority patients concentrated in low-performing hospitals; turning community health centers into medical homes; and more.
U.S. last among wealthy nations in preventable deaths; Affordable Care Act helping young people; implementing medical homes in VA clinics; and more.
First-ever scorecard comparing state performance on long-term services and supports; nation's 'underinsured' grew 80 percent from 2003 to 2010; and more.
The toll of job loss on health insurance coverage; using shared-savings strategies to cut health care costs; using data on patients' race and ethnicity to improve care; and more.
Briefing on care coordination for the chronically ill; health care opinion leaders' views on vulnerable populations in the U.S. health system; and more.
U.S. continues to far outspend other nations on health care; analysis of the state health insurance exchange regulations; and more.
Achieving Medicare and Medicaid savings; study shows global payment lowers costs, improves quality; and more.
Senior hunger and the Older Americans Act; Medicare's payment policy for hospital-acquired conditions; public reporting of hospital outcomes; and more.
For-profit medicaid managed care plans; early implementation of pre-existing condition insurance plans; and more.
How health reform will young adults; maintaining coverage when income and employment change; health care opinion leaders' views on health reform and the role of states; and more.
How health reform will help women; getting what we want from Medicare physician payment; how the Affordable Care Act will strengthen primary care; and more.
Karen Davis on the health care budget proposals; health reform will make insurance affordable for most families; and more.
Majority of Americans think health system needs major overhaul; achieving accountable care; reducing hospital readmissions; and more.
Understanding accountable care organizations; protecting Americans with disabilities; aviation safety practices in that could be applied to health care; and more.
New case studies on creating an organizational culture of safety in health care organizations; advancing foundations' accountability and performance; and more.
Health care opinion leaders support the Affordable Care Act; study look at success factors in health plans; and more.
A blog post on new regulations that will enable student health plan enrollees to gain consumer protections; a white paper recent efforts to reform payments for health care providers; and more.
The new Commonwealth Fund state scorecard on children's health care; an analysis of a new health insurance disclosure form; and more.
Commonwealth Fund vice president Sara Collin's testimony on the health care cooperatives; a study on an alternative to fee-for-service payment; and more.
A new issue brief and blog post on how the Affordable Care Act will begin to strengthen America's primary care system; a new report that examines provisions that support states' health system improvement goals and profiles efforts in 10 states; and more.
New brief on the Affordable Care Act explains the benefits Baby Boomers will see due to Health Care Reform; a blob post on how primary care innovations can help improve the performance of the health system; and more.
New report presents a state-by-state analysis of private employer health insurance costs, includes an interactive map showing a state-by-state view of health insurance premium increases; a video from the International HEalth Policy Symposium; and more.
An international survey of health care in 11 countries; David Blumenthal and others speak about the rate of adoption of HIT and "meaningful use" standards in an e-fourum; and more.
Results from the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey; two new briefs explore ways to pay for medical home services; two new blog posts on transparency and pricing in health care; and more.
A commentary on how performance measurement and evaluation can help ACOs achieve success; a case study on a medical center that has created an integrated system of care primarily for low-income patients; and more.
A new report on the design and implementation of health insurance exchanges; a blog on standardizing the approach to measuring rehospitalizations; a video from the June 2010 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; and more.