1. An Early Status Report On The Beacon Communities' Plans For Transformation Via Health Information Technology.
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McKethan, Aaron, Brammer, Craig, Fatemi, Parastou, Minyoung Kim, Kirtane, Janhavi, Kunzman, Jason, Rao, Shaline, and Jain, Sachin H.
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MEDICAL care , *DECISION support systems , *PEOPLE with diabetes , *DIFFUSION of innovations , *EXPERIENTIAL learning , *GROUP medical practice , *HEALTH services administration , *INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems , *MEDICAL databases , *MEDICAL protocols , *ELECTRONIC health records , *EVALUATION of organizational effectiveness , *QUALITY assurance , *PATIENT participation , *COMMUNITY support , *SOCIAL services case management , *HEALTH care reminder systems - Abstract
The Beacon Community Program is part of a federal strategy for using health information technology as a foundation to improve the nation's health care system. In particular, Beacon Communities seek to increase the quality and efficiency of health care, improve the health of individuals and communities, and inform similar initiatives in other parts of the country. Each Beacon Community has set quality, efficiency, and health-related goals, and each is deploying multiple technology- enabled interventions to achieve them. Yet achieving large-scale and sustainable health care improvement also requires an implementation framework that can foster innovation and continuous learning from results. Based on the early experiences of the seventeen diverse Beacon Communities, this paper describes program design features that characterize how these initiatives are organized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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