Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
January 2, 2015 · NCQA
Every Friday NCQA gives a rundown of some of the health care news stories from the past week. Here are some of our picks for this week:
- Engaging patients and families: How consumers value and use health IT. [National Partnership for Women and Families]
- Measuring quality is promising but needs more progress. [American Health Line]
- Managed care plans make progress in erasing racial disparities. [NPR Health]
- Solutions to woes of mentally ill exist but aren’t used. [USA Today]
- PCMH practices are addressing behavioral health. [NCQA]
- Rhode Island Primary Care and UnitedHealthcare collaborate to improve patient care in Rhode Island. [MarketWatch]
- About 1 in 3 Americans has high blood pressure, but only about 1 in 2 of those with high blood pressure have it under control. [LA Times]
- How Mercy Health is breaking down silos and making data relevant to all the stakeholders. [Healthcare Informatics]