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We want you to have the benefit of accessing the insights, research findings and recommendations from health care experts and other professionals in the Puget Sound area and throughout the country. Below are presentations and speeches that contain useful information.

If you would like to draw from this information in your own communication with others, please cite the source of the information, both the original author and the Alliance website.

ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION AF4Q ANNUAL MEETING

Making Health Care Lean and Efficient

Physicians Championing Change

Measuring Physician Performance: Chronic Illness Care

Extending a Hand: Partnering on the  Road to Transparency and Quality Improvement

Target the Heart: A Summit on Stroke and Heart Disease in Women

Consumer Engagement

Community Coalition Effectiveness: The Role of Communication

Empowering Microsystems: Taking a Community-Wide Approach to Chronic Care

What Does it Mean to be an Activated Consumer

National Drivers for Change: Recipes for Success Emerge

AF4Q Research and Evaluation

Strategic Communications: Quality/Equality

Adventures in Claims Data Analysis: A Report from the Front Lines

Inclusion: Consumers as Equal Partners

Physician Performance Measurement Implementation Rules

Value Partnerships: Aligning Forces with Physician Organizations

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Quality-Based Health Care Purchasing Conference (PowerPoint presentations from a two-day conference 12/2006)

WORKPLACE HEALTH

Preventing Chronic Disease: How (& Why) Employers Can Make A Difference (PDF of presentation, Dr. Jeff Harris, University of Washington, 02/2006)

Top Tools to Insure a Tobacco-Free Workplace: Why, What and How (PDF of presentation, Oregon Coalition of Healthcare Purchasers & Tobacco Free Coalition of Oregon, 02/2006)

Reducing Absenteeism: Trends and Recommendations (PDF of presentation, Mercer 03/2006)

HEALTH BENEFIT DESIGN OR COVERAGE ISSUES

eValue8 Presentation from Oregon Business Coalition on Health (PDF of presentation, 09/2007)

eValue8 Report from the National Business Coalition on Health (PDF)

Employer Health Care Benefits Research Findings (PDF of presentation, Mercer 03/2006)

Consumerism: Trends and Recommendations for Health Benefit Plans (PDF of presentation, Mercer 03/2006)

Pharmacy Benefit Managment (PDF of presentation, Mercer 03/2006)

Wellness: Trends and Recommendations for Health Benefits (PDF of presentation, Mercer 03/2006)

GENERAL

Health Care Market Issues in Washington State (PDF of presentation, Health Care Authority 03/2006)

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