Small Numbers Can Have Big Consequences: Many California Hospitals Performed Dangerously Low Numbers of Cancer
The latest round of California cancer surgery hospital volume data are summarized in a California Health Care Foundation Issue Brief
NAHDO Announcements
NRHI National Affordability Summitt
Save the date for the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement’s National Affordability Summit, Why Does Healthcare Cost So Much?. The event will be held in Washington, D.C. on September 26-27, 2017.
Data Sharing Requirements Initiative report
This report is a product of the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN), which was created to drive alignment in payment reform approaches across and within the public and private sectors of the U.S. health care system.
One of the key insights from the DSRI findings is the essential role, in developing data sharing capacity, of collaboration, shared goals, and shared solutions to enable sustainable APM success.
The report is available here.
Dr. Joe Thompson to give the key note address at NAHDO's 32nd annual conference.
Read Dr. Thompson's BIO here.
Announcing: State Health Compare, A New Online Tool to Study State Health Estimates
SHADAC invites you to explore State Health Compare, a new, user-friendly online tool for obtaining and comparing state-level estimates related to health and health care.
Still Searching. How People Use Health Care Price Information in the United States
Public Agenda's has a newly released research about how people find and use price information in health care, conducted with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the New York State Health Foundation. This research is an update of their 2015 research on price information-seeking.