• Involve primary care practices that include 511 (43%) of the 1183 internists, family physicians, and pediatricians in NEO.
• Use electronic medical record data to report national quality measures, regardless of patients' insurance status, for conditions for which optimal care both improves health and reduces health care costs, including asthma, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, and heart failure. 
• Publicly report measures using nationally-recognized standards. 
• Facilitate continuous improvement through detailed feedback to practices and conducting iterative Learning Sessions modeled on IHI’s successful Breakthrough Series Collaboratives.
• Increase patient compliance by working with consumers to design and apply innovative methods in health communication.

Better Health Greater Cleveland capitalizes on strengths of Northeast Ohio:

• Strong partnership of committed physicians, including providers who treat the insured and safety net populations, from a region widely recognized for its quality care
• Remarkably high adoption of Electronic Medical Records, enabling detailed reporting across all patients
• Facility to engage smaller practices with EMR capabilities by partnering with Ohio’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization
• Rich heritage of public reporting, from which NEO has learned valuable lessons; and
• Leadership from the community, including employers who recognize the opportunity for both better health and lower healthcare costs by supporting an effective initiative to improve outpatient care for the most important chronic conditions.

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For more information, visit http://www.rwjf.org/, http://www.forces4quality.org or http://www.betterhealthcleveland.org.