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Refreshed California Improvement Network Set to Spread Ideas for Better Care

Boasting a new program office, a strong slate of partners, and refreshed agenda of focused topic areas, the California Improvement Network is working with renewed energy to spread innovation in care delivery.

April 26, 2018

•Health Workforce

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First Lady Barbara Bush’s Treatment Decision — and the Words Behind It

As a society, we often struggle with nuance around complex ideas that mean different things to different people, especially with subjects we don’t want to face. End-of-life care is one of them.

April 19, 2018

•Older Adults

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New CHCF Investment Streamlines Care Coordination in the Safety Net

Health care providers cannot effectively coordinate a patient’s care without access to a shared set of accurate clinical information about that patient. That’s what Collective Medical aims to provide, and that’s why it has received the CHCF Innovation Fund’s latest…

April 18, 2018

•Technology and Innovation

Expert Perspective

CIN Connections, Spring 2018 — Healing the Healers

The spring 2018 edition of CIN Connections offers actionable information on tackling provider burnout and promoting well-being.

April 10, 2018

•Health Workforce

Report

What Does Alex Azar’s Plan for Value-Based Care Really Mean?

Policymakers and health care stakeholders are eager to see how Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s actions square with his ambitious rhetoric about using “value-based transformation” to reinvent the US health care system.

April 9, 2018

•Primary Care

Report

For Better Outcomes and Significant Savings, Medi-Cal Must Pay Health Plans Differently

California can strengthen its use of payment as a tool to drive performance improvements and create greater value in the Medi-Cal program, and to enhance care for Medi-Cal’s more than 13 million members.

April 4, 2018

•Medi-Cal

Intended Consequences: Modernizing Medi-Cal Rate Setting to Improve Health and Manage Costs

The current Medi-Cal rate-setting methodology can hurt health plans that invest in initiatives that lower costs (such as care coordination), thereby discouraging more plans from making those investments. A new rate-setting methodology is needed.

April 4, 2018

•Medi-Cal

Data Insight

California’s Unfinished Business: Addressing Health Care Costs

Many of our health policy debates are consequences of an unaffordable health care system. It’s important for California to join other states in addressing the problem of why health care costs so much.

April 3, 2018

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Data Insight

Many Californians Have Coverage, but Not Care, for Mental Health Conditions

Mental health disorders are among the most common chronic illnesses that people face, in the US and here in California, yet too many people miss out on treatment.

March 28, 2018

•Behavioral Health

Report

In Telehealth, a Window to Our Future Workforce

A growing number of medical visits in California are being conducted through telehealth or telemedicine technology, which enables providers to care for people who live far from medical specialists.

March 26, 2018

•Technology and Innovation

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Refreshed California Improvement Network Set to Spread Ideas for Better Care

First Lady Barbara Bush’s Treatment Decision — and the Words Behind It

New CHCF Investment Streamlines Care Coordination in the Safety Net

CIN Connections, Spring 2018 — Healing the Healers

What Does Alex Azar’s Plan for Value-Based Care Really Mean?

For Better Outcomes and Significant Savings, Medi-Cal Must Pay Health Plans Differently

Intended Consequences: Modernizing Medi-Cal Rate Setting to Improve Health and Manage Costs

California’s Unfinished Business: Addressing Health Care Costs

Many Californians Have Coverage, but Not Care, for Mental Health Conditions

In Telehealth, a Window to Our Future Workforce

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