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Issue Date: Fall 2002 Employers Develop New Ways to Improve Safety This editorial discusses a recent report by the Midwest Business Group on Health calling for providers to implement quality measures to prevent errors, as well as the effects that groups like the Leapfrog Group will have on health care purchasing. Patient Safety Takes on New Meaning for Health Care Purchasers This article discusses how an increasing focus by health care purchasers on quality, such as patient safety, is likely to affect how employers contract for care. It also discusses the Leapfrog Group and its data collection efforts aimed at hospitals. Report Calls for Better Care This article discusses a report by the Midwest Business Group on Health calling on physicians and other providers to implement quality measures to reduce medical errors. It also discusses how the increasing emphasis employers are placing on provider accountability is likely to affect how they purchase health care. Purchasers Change How Plans Pay This article discusses how health care purchasers nationwide are adopting a variety of strategies to reduce costs and improve quality, especially a move toward using financial incentives and performance measures to spur providers to improve their performance. Treatments for Persistent Pain Can Help Employers Lower Costs This article discusses the effect that chronic pain has on pain sufferers, their employers, the health care system, and the overall economy. It suggests that effective pain management programs and medications can increase the productivity and reduce the absenteeism of pain-suffering employees. IHI Aims for Improvement This article discusses the efforts of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to transform the ideas presented in the Institute of Medicine's report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century into action.
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