What could HQP or other community-based health care extension services (CBHES) do to support preparedness in case of a new (old-fashioned infectious disease type) epidemic – like swine flu? Besides their role in helping manage the epidemic of chronic illnesses in our communities, well organized CBHES’s (like HQP) could also play an important role in [...]
The community-based health care extension service (CBHES) is an important emerging idea. It offers a conceptual framework for how resources might be better organized to coordinate care for patients, especially those with chronic conditions. The four functional capabilities of a CBHES as proposed by leaders at AHRQ in a recent editorial in the Annals of [...]
Bob Berenson, MD of the Urban Institute is among the many smart people we are fortunate to have working on and advising policy makers on health care reform strategies. I recently got the chance to meet Bob at a small meeting in D.C. where reform of primary care and improving care for chronically ill older [...]
Welcome to the new HQP blog. My aim for this blog is to productively stimulate a dialogue and exchange of ideas about how to redesign the American health care delivery system to be more effective in improving the health of our communities (see the about this blog page). The existing American health care system provides [...]
