New Fund Resources on Coverage, Quality, and Efficiency
<p>The U.S. health care system faces extraordinary pressures and challenges, including sharply rising costs, growing concerns about quality and safety, broad gaps in coverage and access, and persistent disparities. To better understand some of these issues, the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System is releasing a new series of policy briefs on key topics in health care policy.<br><br>Prepared for the Commission by some of the foremost experts in the field, these issue briefs provide concise overviews of the latest research findings and policy debate related to: health insurance coverage, health care costs and spending, Medicare Part D, Medicaid's outlook, quality measurement and improvement, health information technology, and the drive to achieve a higher-performing health system.<br><br>Click on the titles below to read more:<br><br><strong>Coverage and Costs</strong><br><br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21424&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362246%26%23doc362246">Workers' Health Insurance: Trends, Issues, and Options to Expand Coverage</a><br />Paul Fronstin, Employee Benefit Research Institute<br><br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21419&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362803%26%23doc362803">Recent Growth in Health Expenditures</a><br />Stephen Zuckerman and Joshua McFeeters, Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute<br><br><strong>Medicare and Medicaid</strong><br><br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21426&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362249%26%23doc362249">Medicare's New Adventure: The Part D Drug Benefit</a><br />Jack Hoadley, Georgetown University<br><br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21420&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362793%26%23doc362793">Can Medicaid Do More With Less?</a><br />Alan Weil, National Academy for State Health Policy<br><br><strong>Quality and Performance</strong><br><Br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21422&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362728%26%23doc362728">Measuring, Reporting, and Rewarding Performance in Health Care</a><br />Richard Sorian, National Committee for Quality Assurance<br><br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21425&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362245%26%23doc362245">Health Information Technology: What Is the Federal Government's Role?</a><br />David Blumenthal, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System<bR><bR><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21423&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362702%26%23doc362702">Quality Development in Health Care in the Netherlands</a><br />Richard Grol, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands<br><br><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=21421&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D362744%26%23doc362744">Toward a High Performance Health System for the United States</a><br />Anne Gauthier, Stephen Schoenbaum, and Illana Weinbaum, The Commonwealth Fund</p>
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/ealerts/2006/mar/new-fund-resources-on-coverage--quality--and-efficiency