September 21, 2012 -
Tim Kelsey of the National Health Service (NHS) Commissioning Board discusses his new role as National Director for Patients and Information, and outlines how the new customer-service vision for the NHS can be achieved.
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September 21, 2012 -
Lord Ara Darzi, KBE, M.D., former Parliamentary under secretary of state in England, looks at the role of government and clinicians in improving quality in the National Health Service at a local and national level.
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September 21, 2012 -
Thomas Lee, president of Partners Healthcare System and chief executive officer of Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., outlines what the changes in U.S. health care mean for hospitals and health professionals.
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September 21, 2012 -
Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, discusses developments in evidence-based decision making in the United States.
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September 21, 2012 -
Mike Farrar, chief executive of the U.K.'s National Health Service Confederation, talks with Nuffield Trust senior fellow in health policy Ruth Thorlby about what he believes are the key goals of the Health and Social Care Act, the U.K's health reform law.
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September 17, 2012 -
In this video, part of new health reform series, Melinda Abrams, vice president for the Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program, explains how primary care doctors' visits are changing. She outlines the problems many people have with today’s primary care, and how the medical home—an approach to primary care supported by the Affordable Care Act—is improving access and quality of care while lowering costs.
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August 13, 2012 -
The new state-based health insurance exchanges, established under the Affordable Care Act, are where individuals, families, and small businesses will be able to buy affordable private health insurance starting in 2014. In this episode, Sandy Hausman interviews experts Sara Collins, Timothy Jost, and Sara Rosenbaum about how the exchanges will work and whom they will help.
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August 1, 2012 -
In this episode of The Commonwealth Fund-supported CUNY-TV program "Talking Health," A. John Blair III, M.D., president of Taconic IPA, and Melinda K. Abrams, vice president of the Patient–Centered Coordinated Care Program at The Commonwealth Fund, discuss the success of medical homes.
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May 18, 2012 -
"Accountable care is a shift in focus from payment for units of service to payment for taking good care of patients over time," explains The Dartmouth Institute's Elliott Fisher, M.D., in this episode about accountable care organizations, or ACOs. Through interviews with Dr. Fisher and Commonwealth Fund experts, Sandy Hausman explores how ACOs will change the way we think about care and how we pay for it.
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May 3, 2012 -
In this presentation, David Squires, senior research associate for the International Program in Health Policy and Innovation, uses Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data to explain why the U.S. spends more on health care than other industrialized countries.
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March 14, 2012 -
A new Commonwealth Fund report ranks 306 local areas across the U.S. on indicators of health system performance. Watch for report highlights and commentary from report coauthor Cathy Schoen of The Commonwealth Fund.
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March 14, 2012 -
This episode looks at a new scorecard on local health system performance from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, and how communities can use its data to improve.
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January 19, 2012 -
This podcast examines the implications of the Affordable Care Act for the nation's safety net health care providers, which include clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients and those who have no insurance.
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January 4, 2012 -
Watch highlights of the health ministers' roundtable discussion from The Commonwealth Fund's 14th International Symposium on Health Care Policy.
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December 5, 2011 -
The Hon. Annette Widmann-Mauz, Parliamentary State Secretary for Health for Germany, delivers the keynote speech, "Realizing the Promise of Health Reform: A Health Care System for the 21st Century," at The Commonwealth Fund 2011 International Symposium on Health Care Policy.
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