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The following is a compilation of documents regarding different aspects of the quality of patient care movement.  AAMSE is not responsible for the content of the linked websites, nor does it endorse any of the documents presented here.  Please report any dead links to aamse@aamse.org.

- General -

Covering Health Issues: A Sourcebook for Journalists
Publisher:  Alliance for Health Reform
Summary
A guide covering the following issues: the uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid and healthcare quality.
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Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author:  Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
Summary
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project. Today's healthcare providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America.  Crossing the Quality Chasm is an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap.
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Patients, Physicians and Employees: Satisfaction Trifecta Brings Bottom Line Results
Author: PressGaney

Summary
This report studies the relationship between patient, physicians and employee satisfaction and the quality of the patient's experience Link - Please note this link leaves the AAMSE web site  (Free registration required )

President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry
Publisher: The Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry

Summary
This document reports evidence of current quality problems, and then gives more than 50 recommendations of how to address these problems.
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- Information Technology -

Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare
Publisher: Markle Foundation and collaborative participants

Summary
In June 2002, the Markle Foundation launched an ambitious public-private initiative designed to improve patient care by promoting the adoption of an initial set of standards for electronic medical information, in a way that protects patient privacy. This project, Connecting for Health...A Public-Private Collaborative, is bringing together government, industry, healthcare leaders and consumer advocates in an action-oriented nine-month effort to establish consensus on a core set of healthcare data standards.
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CEO Survival Guide: Electronic Health Record Systems
Publisher: National Committee for Quality Health Care

Summary
The Executive Institute's Task Force on Electronic Health Record Systems suggests that leveraging Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to increase quality and efficiency is the work of healthcare executives.
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Community Clinic Information Technology Fact Book
Publisher: The Community Clinic Initiative, A Joint Project of Tides &
The California Endowment

Summary
This fact book is intended to provide clinic leaders and other interested observers a detailed portrait of California community clinics' information management capacities and uses of technology. It is also designed to be a reference tool for clinic leaders, providing them with IT-related information to draw upon when needed, and enabling them to gauge their own clinics' information technology capacities in comparison to the rest of the community clinic field.
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Ending the Document Game: Connecting and Transforming Your Healthcare through Information Technology
Publisher: The Commission on Systemic Interoperability

Summary
The Commission on Systemic Interoperability was authorized by the Medicare Modernization Act and established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Its members were appointed by the President of the United States and the leaders of the 108th U.S. Congress, and it held its first meeting on January 10, 2005.

The Commission was charged with developing a strategy to make healthcare information instantly accessible at all times, by consumers and their healthcare providers. On October 25, 2005, the Commission released its report to the Congress, the Administration and the American public.
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Improving the Quality of Healthcare through Health Information Exchange
Publisher: eHealth Initiatives

Summary
Selected findings from eHealth Initiative’s Third Annual Survey of Health
Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels
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Profiles of Progress, State Health IT Initiatives
Publisher: National Association of State Chief Information Officers

Summary
A product of NASCIO’s Health IT Committee, this compendium provides a state-by-state “snapshot” of progress in the health information technology (HIT) implementation process. Each individual state profile highlights the steps that states are taking in regards to HIT issues, from Executive Orders and legislative-driven initiatives to public/private or public/non-profit partnerships. Most importantly, the compendium examines the roles and responsibilities the state CIO has in these efforts.
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The Current Status of Health Information Technology Use in CAH
Publisher: Flex Monitoring Team

Summary
This report examines the use of Health Information Technology (HIT) in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). CAHs are small, rural hospitals that are either located 35 miles from another hospital (or 15 miles in areas with mountainous terrain or only secondary roads) or state-certified as necessary providers of care.
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- Medical Errors -

Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author: Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
Summary
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap.
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- Pay for Performance -

CEO Survival Guide: Pay for Performance
Author: National Committee for Quality Health Care
Summary
The Executive Institute's Task Force on Pay for Performance suggests that healthcare executives and governing boards should begin immediately to develop a plan for responding to P4P. This plan should identify strategies that will maximize both organizational and community health system performance under P4P.
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