This paper summarizes information learned from interviews with six hospital-based systems that are in the forefront of health information exchange efforts with external providers. Information learned includes how systems are engaging with exchange, their views on the business case for this...

In July 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) awarded cooperative agreements to a select group of programs proposing innovative ways to improve the quality and lower the cost of care for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees....

This Evaluation Highlight focuses on how six States are using quality reports to draw attention to State- or practice-level performance on quality measures in order to drive improvements in the quality of care for children.

The studies summarized in this document were sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Center on Excellence in Disabilities Research, and had the following goals: (1) test the relationship...

This brief presents descriptive and analytic findings from the national evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant Program. It focuses on a joint CHIPRA quality demonstration project in Colorado and New Mexico and the...

The objective of this study was to examine the perspectives of primary care physicians who serve CSHCN on changes they and their practices made in order to achieve the highest level of NCQA PCMH-recognition. Specifically, the study used information from physicians in pediatric and family...

This article measured current hospital use of electronic health record (EHR) systems using data from the 2012 health IT supplement to the American Hospital Association’s annual survey. According to the data, 44 percent of hospitals report having at least a basic EHR system, a 17 percent...

This article measured current hospital use of electronic health record (EHR) systems using data from the 2012 health IT supplement to the American Hospital Association’s annual survey. According to the data, 44 percent of hospitals report having at least a basic EHR system, a 17 percent...