Aiming higher for health system performance: a profile of seven states that perform well on the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 state scorecard
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Moody, Greg. Silow-Carroll, Sharon. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care Health Care Costs Health Care Reform Health Services Accessibility Insurance, Health Preventive Health Services Quality of Health Care Benchmarking Child Child Health Services Cost Control Health Benefit Plans, Employee Hospitalization Insurance Coverage Leadership Medicaid Medical Informatics Private Sector Public Sector State Government Universal Coverage Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- As a companion to the 2009 State Scorecard, this report profiles seven health systems: six that rank among the top quartile of states--Vermont, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin--plus Delaware, which was among the most-improved states from 2007 to 2009. These states demonstrate that high levels of health system performance are achievable and sustainable, and provide useful examples of state policies and practices that may be reasonably associated with health system improvement: a long-term commitment to reform, collaboration among stakeholders, leadership to expand health insurance coverage, transparency of health information, and a capacity to act on emerging best practices. The State Scorecard and this report also show that all states can aim higher in health system performance: if all states improved performance to the levels achieved by the best states, then thousands of lives could be saved and significant cost savings and improved health outcomes could be achieved.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101548808 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101548808