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April 12, 2012 - The goals of accountable care—supporting providers' efforts to work together to achieve better care, better health, and lower costs—are compelling. But translating principles into practice requires learning. Elliott Fisher and Stephen Shortell explore the challenges in learning from ACOs' early experiences.
September 12, 2012 - This Commonwealth Fund–supported study estimated the savings achieved by the Physician Group Practice Demonstration for all beneficiaries and specifically for dual-eligible beneficiaries—a population that has been difficult to manage because of high rates of illness burden, low socioeconomic status, and lack of social supports.
September 4, 2012 - This Commonwealth Fund-supported study finds that understanding the advantages and pitfalls of different shared-savings program design features is critical to reducing costs and improving the quality of patient care.
January 17, 2012 - This 90-minute webinar on January 19 at 2 p.m., E.S.T., drew on a series of Commonwealth Fund case studies on accountable care organizations by Elliot Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Practice.
A look a the early efforts of groups involved in the Community-Based Care Transitions Program, plus an interview with Eric Coleman, M.D., M.P.H., developer of the Care Transitions Intervention.