Resources

Collaborative Leadership

• Collaboration Handbook, Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey: Michael Winer and Karen Ray.
• Evaluating your partnership: Introduction to the web-based partnership self-assessment tool. New York: The New York Academy of Medicine Division of Public Health, 2002.

Public At-large Engagement

• Social Marketing Resource Guide: www.turningpointprogram.org
• AHRQ Resources: www.ahrq.gov/consumer/index.html

Quality & Efficiency Measurement

• National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA): www.ncqa.org
• National Quality Forum (NQF): www.qualityforum.org
• AQA: www.aqaalliance.org/default.htm
• Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA): www.cms.hhs.gov/HospitalQualityInits/33_HospitalQualityAlliance.asp
• AHRQ Measuring Healthcare Quality: www.ahrq.gov/qual/measurix.htm
• AHRQ Quality Indicators AHRQ Quality Indicators www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/

Public Reporting

• AHRQ report card compendium: www.talkingquality.gov/compendium

Website examples of public reports:

• MN Community Measurement: www.mnhealthcare.org
• Massachusetts Health Quality Partners: www.mhqp.org
• Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality: www.wchq.org/reporting/
• California Medical Group Ratings at the CA Office of the Patient Advocate: www.opa.ca.gov/
• Michigan Health & Hospital Association: www.mihospitalinform.org/

Provider Incentives

• Integrated Healthcare Association: www.iha.org
• Leapfrog Group: www.leapfroggroup.org
• Bridges to Excellence: www.bridgestoexcellence.org
• AHRQ Decision Guide on Pay for Performance: www.ahrq.gov/qual/pay4per.htm

Consumer Incentives

• AHRQ Decision Guide on Consumer Financial Incentives: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/value/incentives.htm

Capacity for Improving Quality

• AHRQ State Snapshots www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2008/snapshot07pr.htm
• AHRQ HCUPnet http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/
• American Health Quality Association (National QIO Organization): www.ahqa.org
• Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP): www.abms.org/News_and_Events/Media_Newsroom/in_the_media.aspx
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI): www.IHI.org
• Practice Based Research Networks (PBRNs): www.ahrq.gov/research/pbrn/pbrnfact.htm
• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI): www.icsi.org
• California Quality Collaborative: www.pbgh.org/programs/CQCdescription.asp

Health Information Technology/Health Information Exchange

• http://healthit.ahrq.gov
• http://www.ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/communities/states_search.aspx?
• Recipients of AHRQ HIT grant funding in your State

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