Report on OHP reforms 1st year in CCOs is favorable

The first year report is out and shows improvements in many metrics in multiple areas from most of the states CCOs. Find Oregonian story here. If you want to join WCDB, OPHI and others to work on the Consumer Confidence Project and compare the CCOs through a consumer...

Why Not the Best?

The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System just published a report entitled: Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance. The graphic below shows some of their conclusions, but you can read the...

Gov. Kitzhaber on the 2011 Oregon Legislative Session

» Watch the video Writing for the Salem Statesman-Journal, Peter Wong’s is a based on a recent visit by Gov. John Kitzhaber to the paper’s editorial board: Health care overhaul As the chief legislative author of a 1989 proposal that transformed a...

Health Care Transformation in Oregon: HB 3650

HB 3650 will change the health care delivery system, beginning with people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Status Passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kitzhaber on July 1, 2011. » Read an update in the Salem Statesman-Journal » Read...