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Pursuing High Performance In Rural Health Care, A. Clinton Mackinney Md, Ms, Keith J. Mueller Phd, Andrew F. Coburn Phd, Jennifer P. Lundblad Phd, Mba, Timothy D. Mcbride Phd, Sidney D. Watson Jd
Pursuing High Performance In Rural Health Care, A. Clinton Mackinney Md, Ms, Keith J. Mueller Phd, Andrew F. Coburn Phd, Jennifer P. Lundblad Phd, Mba, Timothy D. Mcbride Phd, Sidney D. Watson Jd
Health System Reform
Rural Futures Lab Foundation Papers are intended to present current thinking on the economic drivers and opportunities that will shape the future of rural America. They provide the foundation upon which it will be possible to answer the question that drives the Lab’s work—What has to happen today in order to achieve positive rural outcomes tomorrow?
Providing Better Care At Lower Cost: Building Maine's Health Data Infrastructure To Support Financing And Delivery System Reform, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Providing Better Care At Lower Cost: Building Maine's Health Data Infrastructure To Support Financing And Delivery System Reform, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Health System Reform
Maine needs a robust and functional health data infrastructure to support efforts by health care providers and purchasers to improve quality, address Maine’s health care cost problems, and improve the health of individuals and populations through payment and delivery system reform. Although Maine has been a leader in building and using health data systems such as the hospital discharge data set and the all-payer claims database, new performance-based financing and delivery system arrangements are highlighting shortcomings in these systems and the need for a renewed vision of Maine’s future health data infrastructure.
The Health Data Workgroup was created by The …