of the highly charged environment in which the future of our health care system continues to be debated, there is a … five important themes that emerged from a review of the recent literature on health system change concludes that an … inherent tension exists between the interest in rapidly driving down health care costs through organizational change and the …

Quality improvement collaboratives have become a common strategy for improving health care. This paper uses social … among major health plans to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the United States. Pre-existing ties, the …. Findings suggest that sponsors and support organizations, along with a few of the health plans, form the core of this network …

health care. Language barriers in the health care setting can lead to miscommunications and cause medical errors, delay or …

This brief examines accountable care organizations—groupings of diverse health care providers that care for a group … care delivered by multiple providers. It also places ACOs in the historical context of health care reform in the United …

This issue brief for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives an overview of how the field of health care disparities … paper focuses specifically on health care disparities, while recognizing that these are obviously also intertwined with … broader efforts to reduce health disparities. …