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The Mayor’s Fitness Council of Austin Texas will positively impact Austin residents’ physical activity levels and nutritional intake with the goal to become the nation’s fittest city.

The Michigan Health Information Alliance (MiHIA) mission is to advance its efforts in driving health innovation and improving health, performance, and economic outcomes by advancing a high-quality, patient-centered, cost-effective health care system.

The Wichita Business Coalition on Health Care (WBC) mission is to engage employers and physicians in a formal process to create alignment that will result in higher value from healthcare investments for plan sponsors and better health for employees and their dependents.

Brian Klepper, PhD, a good friend of the Center and nationally recognized health policy analyst, launches his blog on our site with this column for the Kaiser Health News , which he wrote with his partner David Kibbe, MD, …

. . .These experiments that utilized reductions in co-pays for some populations continued to broaden with the inclusion of incentives for participation in annual or baseline health risk assessments. . .

This important new report by A. Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine and health management and policy at the University of Michigan, offers an excellent overview of what VBID is and how it is being envisioned, implemented, and evaluated. Funded …

In a July 29 Wall Street Journal article, authors Clayton Christensen and Jason Hwang recommended that employers set up company-run, nurse-staffed clinics to handle routine ailments, saving time and money on doctor visits. Along the way, they cite the example …

A community coalition of major employers in Battle Creek, Mich. — famous as the home of cereal maker Kellogg — has come together to fight diabetes with a combination of patient-centered medical homes and value-based insurance design. This article from …

Kathryn Fitch and the team at Milliman have produced this excellent report on the state of the value-based healthcare movement as it relates to diabetes management.  The analysis quantifies the projected costs associated with implementing VBID for diabetes drugs. Read …