Taking Innovation To Scale In Primary Care Practices: The Functions Of Health Care Extension.
Publication/Presentation Date
2-1-2018
Abstract
Health care extension is an approach to providing external support to primary care practices with the aim of diffusing innovation. EvidenceNOW was launched to rapidly disseminate and implement evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular preventive care in the primary care setting. Seven regional grantee cooperatives provided the foundational elements of health care extension-technological and quality improvement support, practice capacity building, and linking with community resources-to more than two hundred primary care practices in each region. This article describes how the cooperatives varied in their approaches to extension and provides early empirical evidence that health care extension is a feasible and potentially useful approach for providing quality improvement support to primary care practices. With investment, health care extension may be an effective platform for federal and state quality improvement efforts to create economies of scale and provide practices with more robust and coordinated support services.
Volume
37
Issue
2
First Page
222
Last Page
230
ISSN
1544-5208
Published In/Presented At
Ono, S. S., Crabtree, B. F., Hemler, J. R., Balasubramanian, B. A., Edwards, S. T., Green, L. A., & ... Cohen, D. J. (2018). Taking Innovation To Scale In Primary Care Practices: The Functions Of Health Care Extension. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 37(2), 222-230. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1100
Disciplines
Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
29401016
Department(s)
Administration and Leadership, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine Faculty
Document Type
Article