MediCaring Communities Book News June 22, 2016October 12, 20210 MediCaring Communities: Getting What We Want and Need in Frail Old Age at an Affordable Cost Published June, 2016 194 pages, 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) ISBN-10: 1481266918 Book List Price $9.95 / Kindle edition $3.49 at Americans want a long life and most of us will get to live into our 80’s
County Health Rankings Data Sources April 8, 2014October 6, 20160 The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (link: rwjf.org) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (link: uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu). County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of
AGing Integrated Database (AGID) Data Sources July 16, 2015October 2, 20180 The Administration on Aging AGing Integrated Database (AGID) is an on-line query system based on Administration for Community Living (ACL)-related data files and surveys, and includes population characteristics from the Census Bureau for comparison purposes. Different options through AGID provide different levels of focus and aggregation of the data. To
MediCaring Blog: Purchasing Value- Not Yet Right for Medicare’s Frail Elders Resource Library February 26, 20150 Republished with permission from: http://medicaring.org/2015/02/25/purchasing-value/ By Joanne Lynn In late January, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell announced that Medicare would purchase most services on the basis of value rather than volume, aiming for 90% of fee-for-service payments by 2018 [http://www.hhs.gov/blog/2015/01/26/progress-towards-better-care-smarter-spending-healthier-people.html]. Of course, paying on the basis
MediCaring Blog: The Evidence that the Readmissions Rate (Readmissions/Hospital Discharges) is Malfunctioning as a Performance Measure Resource Library January 28, 2015January 28, 20150 Republished with permission from: http://medicaring.org/2015/01/26/evaluation-flaws/ By Joanne Lynn M.D. [Also see companion post by Stephen F. Jencks, M.D., M.P.H.] Care transitions improvement programs have been effective in helping the health care system both become more effective in serving people living with serious chronic conditions and reduce costs. However, the key metric
MediCaring Blog: Protecting Hospitals That Improve Population Health Resource Library January 28, 2015September 12, 20180 Republished with permission from: http://medicaring.org/2015/01/26/evaluation-flaws/ by Stephen F. Jencks, M.D., M.P.H. [Also see companion post by Joanne Lynn, M.D.] Issue. The Medicare Readmission Reduction Program (MRRP) encourages hospitals to reduce readmissions within 30 days of discharge by imposing substantial financial penalties on hospitals with more readmissions than would be expected if the same patients
PDF Download: Evaluation of the Community-Based Care Transitions Program Resource Library January 28, 2015January 28, 20150 PDF Download: Evaluation of the Community-Based Care Transitions Program Evaluation of the Community-Based Care Transitions Program, May 30, 2014; This First Annual Report PDF contains the introduction, program implementation, analysis and summary of the findings of the Community-Based Care Transitions Program. The Community-Based Care Transitions Program was created to assess metrics