HCA 330 Healthcare Product and Service Delivery Marketing: Web Sites

IHI was officially founded in 1991, but our work began in the late 1980s as part of the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health Care. IHI is committed to redesigning health care into a system without errors, waste, delay, and unsustainable costs.

This non-profit organization accredits more than 21,000 US health care organizations and programs. The international branch accredits medical services from around the world.

Kaiser is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.

The foundation's goal, through the use of grants, is "to improve the health and health care of all Americans".

From the website: We inspire and enable a better world through our scholarship and teaching about management and organizations.

ACHE is the professional membership society for healthcare executives.

A Web portal for healthcare professionals. You need to register to view content.

Provides online data for more than 6,000 hospitals.

The Leapfrog Group's hospital comparison tool allows you to compare overall patient safety ratings and the safety of specified procedures at health care facilities. The tool allows you to search for individual facilities or by city or region.

Lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.

Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. The agency that administers Medicare and the federal part of Medicaid. Unfortunately, the site is incredibly hard to navigate, and there is no well defined area that deals with PPACA overall (specific sites appear below). The most efficient way to search the site is generally to do a site: search in Google; e.g.: "affordable care act" AND Medicaid site:cms.gov

The Department of Health and Human Services is the principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans. It is comprised of the Office of the Secretary and 11 operating divisions. The agencies perform a wide variety of tasks and services, including research, public health, food and drug safety, grants and other funding, health insurance, and many others.