CalQualityCare.org: Your Guide to Long Term Care in California
This free service offers unbiased quality ratings that will help consumers make better choices. Watch a short video to learn about the site's key features and added benefits.
Health IT: Hope, Hype, and How to Avoid the Road to Hell
In November 2009, Dr. Mark Smith gave a keynote address at the AMIA annual symposium, highlighting the overarching need for connected health IT systems and the key role of AMIA members in ensuring this need is met.
Health Care in California: Checking the Vital Signs
Addressing the California Association of Physician Groups, Dr. Mark Smith says improving care involves a focus on quality, customer service, and the spread of best practices. Watch the video.
The Stimulus's Impact on the Privacy and Security of Health Information
The recently enacted economic stimulus legislation includes a number of improvements to federal health privacy law. The new provisions were discussed at a Sacramento briefing. An issue brief is also available.
The Real Value of Health IT
In a June talk at Microsoft's Connected Health Conference, CHCF President Mark Smith argues that health IT must address the real-world problems of patients and providers. Watch the video and slide presentation.
Video on Team Meetings in a Clinical Environment
This ten-minute video provides tips on how to structure regular meetings and which staff to include to improve clinical team effectiveness and achieve continuous quality improvement in health care delivery.
Clinic of the Future: Will Yours Be One?
Community clinics have become an integral part of California's medical system. In this video, CHCF CEO Dr. Mark Smith discusses the strategic challenges faced by clinics if they are to adapt and thrive in the coming years.
The Transformative Promise of Health Information Technology
Watch Dr. Mark D. Smith, president and CEO of CHCF, discuss the potential and challenges related to health IT at a Health Affairs briefing to release the March/April 2009 issue.
The Case for Palliative Care
Hospital-based palliative care has the potential to reduce the cost of care at the end of life. Nevertheless, among hospitals without palliative care, only 4% are developing a program. Dr. Mark D. Smith presents recent survey findings.
The Good Practice -- Interviews with Community Dentists
This eight-minute audio report recounts the experiences of three dentists who treat uninsured and Medi-Cal dental patients and how they were able to improve their practices. It accompanies a related full report and issue brief.
Video on Coaching Patients for Successful Self-Management
This 14-minute video discusses both how to develop an action plan to support healthy behavior change and how to ensure patients are taking their medications appropriately. Patients are coached on the skills they need to become active participants in their own care.
Webcast: Retail Clinic Trends in the United States
Located in mini-malls and discount stores, a new wave of retail health clinics promise to transform a small piece of the health care landscape. Watch a presentation about recent trends in the field.
Harnessing the Power of Disease Registries
This video accompanies a fact sheet that compares the key features of EHRs and CDMSs and examines the pros and cons of different approaches for a new implementation. The video discusses disease registry tools.
Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
A major CHCF initiative will fund the development of self-sustaining remote diabetic eye screening sites in primary care clinics. Over the coming years, more than 100,000 patients will be screened. Watch a short video about the project.
Mark Smith Discusses Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care
This audio program accompanies a full report that reviews and analyzes data along with research from focus groups and surveys. The report examines the causes and patterns of death and dying across California's populations and the impact on the delivery of health care.
Video with Techniques for Effective Patient Self-Management
This 33-minute video provides basic strategies and tools that busy health care providers can use to help patients choose healthy behaviors and transform the patient-provider relationship.
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