Advancements in Care Delivery

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Despite the best medical advances and ongoing cutting edge research, our current health care system is not designed to help individuals consistently receive the best care available, engage communities in advancing healthy lifestyles, and control health care costs. Overutilization of services with questionable benefit, underutilization of services frequently needed, and variations across providers in how health care is delivered continue to negatively impact our health care system.

Health plans are working in partnership with physicians, hospitals, and other clinicians to help change the delivery system by offering decision support tools, exchange of key health information that helps providers recognize gaps in care, and innovative payment models that focus on paying for improved patient care and not volume of services provided. Health plans play a unique role in these partnerships that emphasize collaborations across multiple health care settings.

Latest Documents

Cigna: A Cigna Member Tells How the Health Plan Helped Her Following a Car Accident

AHIP member company produced video - Cigna: A Cigna Member Tells How the Health Plan Helped Her Following a Car Accident 

Videos | 03/09/12

Independence Blue Cross: Teaming Up to Address Patients’ Many Needs

Independence Blue Cross's doctors, nurses, medical assistants, and pharmacists work together to make sure that patients have the lab tests, primary and specialty care, and patient support they need to live healthy lives.

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12

Independence Blue Cross: Enabling Doctors and Nurses to Realize their Goals for Excellence

Independence Blue Cross video -  Enabling Doctors and Nurses to Realize their Goals for Excellence

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12

Kaiser Permanente: Using Web-Based Learning and Social Media to Help Patients Lose Weight

Kaiser Permanente Video - Using Web-Based Learning and Social Media to Help Patients Lose Weight

Videos | 03/09/12

Kaiser Permanente: Making Exercise a Vital Sign

Kaiser Permanente Video - Making Exercise a Vital Sign

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12

Kaiser Permanente: Offering Culturally Sensitive Counseling for Weight Loss

Kaiser Permanente Video - Offering Culturally Sensitive Counseling for Weight Loss

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12

HealthPartners: Empowering Patients with Diabetes to Improve Their Health

Health Partners Video - Empowering Patients with Diabetes to Improve Their Health

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12

HealthPartners: Coaching Patients on Reaching Goals for Better Health

HealthPartners Video - Coaching Patients on Reaching Goals for Better Health

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12

HealthPartners: The Diabetes Wizard

HealthPartners Video -The Diabetes Wizard

Videos | Center for Policy and Research | 03/09/12
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