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July 2008
"Second Annual Innovation in Services Conference: The Service of Healthcare" to be held
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February 2008
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February 2008
Murray Ross to Assume Leadership of KP Institute for Health Policy
September 2007
Health Information Exchange Research
Fellowship Awarded
Media
April 2008
MedScape Journal of Medicine Feature: Physicians: Organize for High Performance - Webcast Video Editorial - Tony Shih, of The Commonwealth Fund, reviews "Physician Organization in Relation to Quality and Efficiency of Care: A Synthesis of Recent Literature" by Laura Tollen.
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New Publications
April 2008
Physician Organization in Relation to Quality and Efficiency of Care: A Synthesis of Recent Literature
Laura Tollen, The Commonwealth Fund Report
April 2008
Preparing For The PHR
Brian Raymond, Healthcare Informatics, Web-First Article
April 2008
A Conversation with David Bates, MD, MSc, Chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association
Brian Raymond, The Permanente Journal, Volume 12, Number 2.
January 2008
Beyond Equal Care: How Health Systems Can Impact Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Kate Meyers, The Permanente Journal, Volume 12, Number 1
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA.
January 2008
"In Focus" brief: Improving Health Care Systemness
Laura Tollen
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA.
October 2007
Meeting
Summary: Funders’ Role in Promoting Collaboration to Improve
Equity for Children, Families, and Communities
Kate Meyers
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA. |
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Brief commentaries on select health policy actions, publications, and conferences/meetings.
July 3, 2008
Mayo Reform Vision Focuses on Delivery System
The often heated debates over national health reform don’t get many laughs. So it was refreshing to read how Dr. Denis Cortese, the president/CEO of Mayo Clinic, explained why his organization (or at least its policy institute) has taken a high-profile role in promoting a vision of national health reform. It’s because, he told a Lacrosse, Wisc., reform symposia a few weeks ago, “Somebody has got to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.” (more)
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