The Health Care Transformation Task Force hosted a webinar highlighting the launch of the Maternal Health Hub Learning Community! The Maternal Health Hub compiles resources and best practices to advance a vision for high-value and equitable maternity care and serves as a forum for all maternal...
Affordability remains a key challenge in the U.S., with a third of Americans saying they or a family member delayed medical treatment in the past year because they couldn't afford it. [1] While value-based payment has shown promise in reducing overall cost, greater work remains...
The Root Cause Coalition’s 2020 Status of Health Equity Report highlighted the importance of engaging and learning from communities “most affected by inequities in health and social conditions.” The importance of engagement is amplified by the coronavirus pandemic’s disproportionately devastating effect on communities of color. This...
Putting the consumer back in “Consumer Engagement” is important work. Health systems are increasingly engaging with consumers to ensure that consumer voices are more widely informing clinical practice. The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF) and the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation (CCEHI)...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force and the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) hosted a webinar with Mark McClellan, MD, co-chair of the LAN CEO Forum and founding HCTTF Board member. The webinar highlighted the LAN's new goals to accelerate the percentage...
There is growing interest from the health care industry in the non-clinical factors that influence the health and well-being of the populations they serve. Health care providers, payers, and purchasers are starting to explore ways that they can impact food insecurity, housing instability, access to...
Value-based payment is a critical mechanism to drive improved maternal health outcomes and reduced disparities. The Health Care Transformation Task Force released a report detailing current efforts to implement and expand access to outcomes-driven maternity care through value-based payment. This webinar explored the findings of...
Lifestyle medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches to treat, reverse and prevent chronic disease and focuses on six areas to improve health: healthful eating, physical activity, stress management, tobacco cessation, maintaining healthy relationships, and sleep improvement. We will also hear from the...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force released an implementation framework for engaging consumers in care delivery to promote ideal person-centered, value-driven health care by including patients and consumers as partners in all aspect of decision-making about their health care. The Implementation Framework provides best practices and...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force developed a Value Partnership Evaluation Tool to support leaders as they assess potential partner organizations – or themselves – for readiness to engage in successful value-based partnerships. This interactive tool is designed around a set of core competencies determined to...