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Health Insurance Marketplaces: A Progressive States Network Webianr

5/13/2013 9:54:00 AM - The Progressive States Network and The Commonwealth Fund recently cosponsored the second in a series of webinars designed for state legislators and legislative staff on health care challenges and opportunities.

Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Do They Work? A Briefing

5/3/2013 10:23:00 AM - Washington, D.C., policy stakeholders recently convened for a briefing to discuss what preliminary results of medical home pilots say about their effect on health outcomes, quality of care, patient and provider satisfaction, and health care costs.

Medicaid Expansion: A Progressive States Network Webinar

4/22/2013 4:17:00 PM - The Progressive States Network and The Commonwealth Fund recently cosponsored the first in a series of webinars designed for state legislators and legislative staff on health care challenges and opportunities.

Webinar: Measuring Progress in Accountable Care

3/14/2013 12:00:00 AM - This webinar provided highlights from the Premier Research Institute's study of 59 hospitals involved in a national accountable care collaborative, as well as feedback from two participating organizations.

Webinar: What States Need to Do to Enforce the ACA's Health Insurance Protections

3/12/2013 9:48:00 AM - A March 12 webinar drew on a Commonwealth Fund brief that examines state action on these protections. The event was cosponsored by the Progressive States Network.

Webinar: The 2012 International Survey of Primary Care Physicians

2/5/2013 9:40:00 AM - The Commonwealth Fund hosted a webinar on February 5 that examined key survey findings, with commentary and perspective provided by respondents from England, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

Using WhyNotTheBest.org to Explore Health Care Performance Data for Hospitals, Hospital Groups, and Regions

1/17/2013 12:00:00 AM - During this webinar for members of AcademyHealth, presenters introduced The Commonwealth Fund's health care quality benchmarking tool, WhyNotTheBest.org, and demonstrated how to use it to inform research.

Webinar: How Sustainable Hospitals Are Achieving Major Savings

12/4/2012 4:32:00 PM - Watch the recording or download materials from a webinar about how hospitals can achieve savings and reduce their carbon footprint through sustainability programs to reduce energy use and waste, achieve operating room supply efficiencies, and more.

Using WhyNotTheBest.org to Benchmark and Improve Performance: A Webinar

11/16/2012 9:25:00 AM - During this webinar, we saw a demonstration of WhyNotTheBest.org and heard stories from the field from those using the tool in their work.

Measuring the Success of the Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Webinar

5/16/2012 1:46:00 PM - The Evaluators' Collaborative has developed a core set of standardized measures to evaluate cost, utilization, and clinical quality outcomes in PCMH evaluation studies. A May 16 webinar offered detail about the consensus process and the recommended measures.

The Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges Webinar: Opportunities and Challenges

2/22/2012 11:46:00 AM - In a Feb. 22 webinar, experts on the Affordable Care Act's state insurance exchanges discussed the key exchange implementation issues, including critical design choices, attracting small businesses, and the program’s potential appeal to large employers.

ACO Formation: Leading the Transition to New Models of Care

1/17/2012 3:17:00 PM - This 90-minute webinar on January 19 at 2 p.m., E.S.T., drew on a series of Commonwealth Fund case studies on accountable care organizations by Elliot Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Practice.

Advance Screening—U.S. Health Care: The Good News

1/12/2012 2:45:00 PM - On Jan. 23, The Commonwealth Fund, CUNY-TV, and Columbia Journalism Review hosted an advance screening with T.R. Reid of his new documentary, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News."

2011 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Sicker Adults

1/11/2012 11:37:00 AM - A free 90-minute webinar sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund examined the key findings of the survey and international respondents from England, Switzerland, and the Netherlands commented on survey findings.

The Innovation Center: Testing Reforms with Rigor and Speed

11/30/2011 10:00:00 AM - This webinar looked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s priorities, explored how it can best conduct rigorous, rapid-cycle evaluation, and examined the role of health care providers in identifying and rolling out innovations. Presentations and link to a recording are now available. The event was cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth.