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Foundations Supporting Stewardship of Health Care Resources Through Medical...

With rising health care costs, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and increasing concern about the effects of unnecessary medical care, there has been more interest in the role of...

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The Rippel Foundation and the RWJF Push Frontiers for Financing and...

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that accountable care organizations (ACOs) saved Medicare nearly $400 million by more effectively coordinating care, I wondered...

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A World of Darkness: What If Thomas Edison Had to Write Grant Proposals to...

Editors’ Notes:  This is the first in an occasional series of posts published in partnership with Grantmakers in Health (GIH). Visit its website for other updates about the field of health...

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Eliminating Preventable Harm in Academic Medical Centers: The Libretto...

Imagine a health care system where medical harms no longer occur. Where technology is connected and systems talk to each other. Where doctors, nurses, patients, and families work as a team, and...

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Watchful Waiting by Physicians on Payment Reform: Results from a...

While almost 80 percent of Maine physicians surveyed agreed that the current fee-for-service system should be restructured to align payment with optimal clinical care, only 50 percent indicated they...

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Health Policy Fellows Program in a Southern State Helps to Inform Legislators

The development of a nonpartisan program to help elected officials increase knowledge and dialogue around health, health care, and health policy issues has been well received in South Carolina. To take...

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New Report from the Milbank Memorial Fund: Aligning Payers and Practices to...

The Milbank Memorial Fund continues the work of helping states in their efforts to transform primary care with its release of a new report Aligning Payers and Practices to Transform Primary Care: A...

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New Center for Health Information Activation Supports Empowered Patients,...

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), through its supporting organization the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), has been working at the Triple Aim (better health, better health care, and...

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People Post: Foundation Staff Member News

Ginny Ehrlich joined the staff of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in July 2014 as director and senior program officer of its Childhood Obesity team. Most recently, she was founding CEO of the...

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Peterson Foundation Announces $200 Million Commitment for Its New Center on...

Gail R. Wilensky is the senior fellow at Project HOPE and a member of the Peterson Center on Healthcare’s Advisory Board. On December 4, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, created by the Peter G....

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GrantWatch Blog Most-Read List for 2014: Post on the Importance of Zip Code...

Happy New Year! We have compiled a list of the ten most-read posts on GrantWatch Blog during 2014, in case you missed any of them. “Zip Code Overrides DNA Code When It Comes to a Healthy Community”...

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What Funders Can Do to Advance Payment Reform

The movement to transform how we pay health care providers has taken a dramatic turn in the past several years as more and more purchasers, providers, and other stakeholders seek financial incentives...

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