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Ensuring Equity: A Post-Reform Framework to Achieve High Performance Health Care for Vulnerable Populations

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations defined in this report as people without health insurance, low-income families, and racial and ethni
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8 Steps to Ensuring Safe, Reliable Medication Purchases During Drug Shortages

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed the following series of actions should be taken to ensure a safe, reliable purchase.
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Consumers May Have More Control Over Health Care Costs Than Previously Thought

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their health care spending once they began to receive a physician's care, but a new study shows that this ha
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Focus on the Rising Cost of Health Care

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing concern for American businesses, families and individuals.
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Meaningful Use of Electronic Prescribing in 5 Exemplar Primary Care Practices

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in ambulatory care settings will require practice transformation efforts that focus on work process redesign
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Do Disability Benefits Discourage Work?

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a 'natural experiment' that arises from the disability determination process itself: Some of the disability examiners who decid
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Evaluation of RxNorm in Ambulatory Electronic Prescribing

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharmacists to dispense.
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Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive assessments of U.S. population health and health care quality, access, efficiency, and equity.
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Promoting the Integration and Coordination of Safety-Net Health Care Providers Under Health Reform: Key Issues

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination and integration among health care providers, including the promotion of accountable care organizations an