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Background and Resources

Below is a brief list of background material on Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) and related topics. This section of the website is a resource directory for IPIP related topics.

IPIP General Information

Latest News

 

April 2009 Video for IPIP practices explaining the IHI Extranet - shows IPIP practices how to navigate the IHI Extranet site that contains their practice measures and graphs

December 2008 Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot

 

Self-Directed Resources

  • IPIP Self-Directed Resources (coming soon)

IT and Healthcare Transformation

  • Kilo, Charles Transforming Care: Medical Practice Design and Information Technology
    Health Affairs – Volume 24, Number 5 September-October 2005 PP 1296 -1301.
  • Richard Hillestad, James Bigelow, Anthony Bower, Federico Girosi, Robin Meili, Richard Scoville, and Roger Taylor, Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care? Potential Health Benefits, Savings, And Costs Health Affairs 24, no. 5 (September/October 2005): 1103-1117.
    http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/5/1103
  • COPICSCOPE: No 129 January 2006 “A comprehensive Look at Electronic Health Record Systems.” 

Lean Principles

Quality Improvement General Information

Pay for Performance

  • American College of Physicians. Linking Physician Payments to Quality Care, Philadelphia: American College of Physicians: 2005: Position Paper. (Available from American College of Physicians, 190 N Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106 800-523-1546 ext 2600)
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Additional Information

For questions and additional information, please contact Allyson Gottsman at (720) 297-1681 or by email.