Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Tag Archives: health care quality
For mothers-to-be, finding health care in a group
From the Fixes Blog at the New York Times: Recently in a nondescript conference room near Union Square in Manhattan, eight very pregnant women, husbands, boyfriends and a sister sat in a circle around a small patchwork quilt for two … Continue reading
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Tagged health behavior, health care quality, health disparities, utilization
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“Toward Quality Measures for Population Health and the Leading Health Indicators”
If you, like me, missed this report when it first appeared last summer, visit the Institute of Medicine website to read the free PDF (or to order a copy). Public health practice and health care delivery in the United States … Continue reading
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Tagged health care quality, health indicators, public health, research
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Inequality at the core of high health care spending: A view from the OECD
From the Health Affairs blog: It is commonly said that the US spends more than twice as much on health care as other developed countries, yet its outcomes are worse. The inference is that too much care is provided, to … Continue reading
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New from AHRQ: Policies to reduce healthcare disparities
The new issue of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)’s Heath Care Innovations Exchange focuses on policies to reduce health care disparities. The featured Innovations describe three programs that implemented policies to help reduce health care disparities and ensure that vulnerable … Continue reading
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New web site for USHIK database
The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is an on-line, publicly accessible registry and repository of healthcare-related data, metadata and standards. USHIK is funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with management support in partnership with the Centers … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRQ, health care quality, health services research, statistics, utilization
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Healthcare in two Americas
From the Commonwealth Fund Blog: Economists at Harvard University recently reported that geography is a particularly powerful predictor of economic mobility in the United States. For those of us who work in health care, this should not be surprising: we already … Continue reading
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Tagged health care quality, health care reform, health disparities
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Toward a scientific approach to workplace wellness
From the Health Affairs blog: We thank Health Affairs for the opportunity to respond to Professor Ron Goetzel’s comments on our recent Health Affairs article, “Wellness Incentives in the Workplace: Cost Savings through Cost Shifting to Unhealthy Workers.” In many respects our article was quite limited in … Continue reading
Data sources for 2012 National National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports released
From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, … Continue reading
Using patient-reported data to improve chronic disease care
The new issue of AHRQ’s Innovations Exchange describes several new tools that allow patients to track information esaily and share it with clinicians to improve health care. The featured Innovations describe a tool that uses self-reports from patients with diabetes to generate intervention options, a … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRQ, consumer health, health behavior, health care quality, health communication, research, social media
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National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Measures Matrix
The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) is a public resource for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets. You can find different types of quality measures by topics (linked to a particular term derived from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Medical … Continue reading
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