Manatee County Center for Health and LIfestyle Management Manatee County, FL [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background “Brenda”, a County employee for 20 years, is living with diabetes. After the inception of the “YourChoice” program, she recognized an improved level of focus and productivity, noting, “For the first time […]
Department of Labor and Industries Olympia, WA [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background Workers’ compensation systems throughout the U.S. are faced with the challenge of trying to improve health care in order to reduce workplace disability and control rising costs. Washington’s State Fund workers’ compensation system provides workers’ compensation […]
QCMetrix, Inc. Waltham, MA [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background Surgical complications are expensive for all constituencies in the U.S. health care system: the surgical patients who pay the price with their own health and safety; private and government (federal and state) payers; and hospitals. Systematic data-driven surgical quality […]
Heinz College of Health Care Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background Health care costs today are rising at an annual rate of six to seven percent. This is a staggering figure considering that the United States spends almost a fifth of […]
University of Minnesota Division of Health Policy and ManagementMinneapolis, MN [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background Health insurance markets are regulated by the states under the McCarran-Ferguson Act ( 15 U.S.C. 1011) of 1945. The ‘purpose clause’ of the Act states that regulation and taxation of the business of […]
Fallon Community Health Plan Worcester, MA [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background The combined use of limited, or selective, provider networks and a defined contribution strategy presents an immediate opportunity for government entities and employer groups to achieve significant and sustainable health insurance savings and reduce medical cost trends, […]
New England Healthcare Institute and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Cambridge, MA [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Background In 2004, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), in partnership with the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI), created the Massachusetts Hospital CPOE Initiative, a six-year-long campaign to speed adoption of a computer technology that […]
Florida Virtual School [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Introduction Billy Mayhood was born with undeveloped nerves and muscles in the right side of his face, leaving him unable to move it, and the target of teasing from schoolmates. While surgeons had performed five nerve transplants on Mayhood between the […]
AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Introduction Charles M. Payne begins his recent book, “So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools,” with the following quotation by G.K. Chesterton, “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that […]
The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions [tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Introduction Ohio policymakers have made improving the state’s education system a top priority, but reforms enacted so far have had marginal effects. While improving the quality of the state’s teachers is one reform that holds promise, efforts […]