State Quality Improvement Institute:
Interim Meeting Presentations & Resources

Below are materials from the State Quality Improvement Institute's Interim Meeting. The first four groupings of materials were available to meeting participants, while the final grouping includes a listing of additional resources listed alphabetically by organization and author's last name. 

State Updates

Please click here for a compilation of progress updates from all 9 participating States, provided in all participants' binders.

The following presentations were delivered at the Interim Meeting:

• STAAR Initiative, STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations
  Balik, B.
• Delivery System Reform: Developing Accountable Care Organizations
  Bertko, J.
• State Quality Improvement Institute: Early Lessons and Future Plans.
  Opening Plenary Presentation
  Gauthier, A. and E. Martinez-Vidal.
• What it Takes to Do Goal-Oriented Quality Improvement
  Closing Discussion
  Gauthier, A. and E. Martinez-Vidal.
• Blueprint Integrated Pilot Programs, Evaluation & Financial Impact
  Jones, C.
• From Volume to Value: Better Ways of Paying for Health Care
  Miller, H.
• Population Health: Why it Matters in Quality Improvement
  Moffatt, S.
• States “HITting” Back at Escalating Health Care Costs and Poor Quality: The Science and Art of Health Information Technology Deployment and Adoption
  Rodgers, A.
• Care Coordination in Medicaid and CHIP Medical Home Initiatives
  Takach, M.

The following resources were included in the meeting folders of all participants: 

• Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System
  Bailit, M.
• Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform. Paths to Healthcare Payment Reform.
  •  Is “Shared Savings” the Way to Reform Payment? 
  •  Setting Payment Levels  
  •  Transitioning to Comprehensive Care Payment 
  •  Transitioning to Episode-Based Payment  
  •  Using Medical Homes to Reduce Readmissions 
  •  Which Healthcare Payment System is Best? 
• Budget Options Volume 1, Health Care
  The Congress of the United States Congressional Budget Office
  December 2008, pp 72-74.
• Data Dictionary
  Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation
  Journal on Quality Improvement
  Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 635-645.
• Fostering Accountable Health Care: Moving Foward In Medicare
  Fisher, E. et al.
  Health Affairs – Web Exclusive
  Vol. 28, No. 2, January 27, 2009, pp w219-w231.
• Health Care Quality Improvement focused on Readmissions
  McBride, S.
• Cognos Web-based Analytic Tool Overview: Market, Quality and Physician Data Analysis with Drill-thru Feature
  Tietze, M. 

• Reducing Re-hospitalizations in a State or Region
  Balik, B.
• Effective Interventions to Reduce Rehospitalizations: A Survey of the Published Evidence. Institute for Healthcare Improvement*
  Boutwell, A. et al.
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
  March 2009.
• Effective Interventions to Reduce Rehospitalizations: A Compendium of 15 Promising Interventions*
  Boutwell, A. et al. 
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  March 2009.
• STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR): Applying Early Evidence and Experience in Front-line Process Improvements to Develop a State-based Strategy*
  Boutwell, A. et al. 
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  March 2009.
• The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System: A 2020 Vision and the Policies to Pave the Way, Executive summary
  The Commonwealth Fund
  February 2009. 
• How-to Guide: Creating an Ideal Transition Home*
  Goldfield, N. et al. 
  Health Care Financing Review
  Vol. 30, No. 1, Fall 2008, pp 75-91. 
• Maximizing Quality and Value in Medicaid: Using Return on Investment Forecasting to Support Effective Policymaking
  Hamblin, A. and C. Shearer
  The Commonwealth Fund
  April 2009.
• STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR): A Tool for State Policy Makers*
  Hines, S.
  The Lewin Group.
• Rehospitalizations Among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program
  Jencks, S. et al. 
  New England Journal of Medicine
  Vol. 360, No. 14, April 2, 2009, pp 1418–28.
• HEAL NY: Promoting Interoperable Health Information Technology in New York State
  Kern, L. et al. 
  Health Affairs
  Vol. 28, No. 2, March/April 2009, pp. 493–504.
• From Volume to Value: Better Ways of Paying for Health Care
  Miller, H.

Additional Resources:

• Guide for Field Testing: Creating an Ideal Transition to a Skilled Nursing Facility*
  Balik, B. et al.
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  2009.
• The Cost Conundrum
  Gawande, A.
  The New Yorker 
  June 1, 2009.
• Reforming Provider Payment: Essential Building Block for Health Reform
  Guterman, S. et al.
  The Commonwealth Fund
  March 2009.
• Improving Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages to Service for Young Child: Opportunities for States
  Johnson, K. and J. Rosenthal
  The Commonwealth Fund and the National Academy of State Health Policy
  April 2009.
• Guide for Field Testing: Creating an Ideal Transition to the Clinical Office Practice*
  Shall, M. et al. 
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  2009.

*Materials posted with the permission of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). For additional information on IHI or the STAAR project, please visit the IHI website.