Implementation Groups

The purpose of the Waste Reduction and Safety Implementation Work Group is to help Tennessee do its part in saving 1/2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years in Medicare and TennCare. The group will do this by familiarizing themselves with what the ACA has to say about these issues and how itcan work to implement measures that actually reduce waste and increase patient safety across the state. The group will accomplish this through collaborative means with health care service providers, administrators, and health care consumers. It will look for and foster local leadership, research and promote ways to change financial incentives to improve care, recognize the gathering of data as an important tool for measuring improvement (not an end in itself), and engage our communities in our work through whatever means feasible.

Links:

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Resource material:

The “How Do They Do That?” Conference ­ Summary, Atul Gawande, July 21, 2009

The New Yorker, Testing, Testing by Atul Gawande

US Health Care Reform by Region

New Tools to Fight Fraud, Strengthen Medicare and Protect Taxpayer Dollars

Center for Budget & Policy Priorities