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• From waste to value-conscious innovation: Can Group Health show the way?

  On May 11, Canadian economist Robert G. Evans, PhD, praised Group Health for our idea-driven success. But then he asked: “If Group Health has a better mousetrap, why isn’t the world beating a path to your door?”
• No fewer deaths in VA patients with bariatric surgery

  Patients in Veterans Affairs study were older and higher risk.
• Total Health evaluation aims to help purchasers’ dollars go farther

  In January 2011, Group Health introduced a new "value-based" medical plan for its mid-large group market. The groundbreaking product addressed a top priority for health care purchasers: finding cost savings that don't compromise health or quality of care.
• Patient-centered health IT helps advance high-quality care

  A key provision in 2009's economic stimulus legislation propelled health information technology (IT) into national health care policy debates.
• Now’s the time: Award and endowment hail Dr. Wagner’s lifework

  Deliberations over health care’s future continue to be divisive. The U.S. Senate “super committee”—deadlocked over deficits linked largely to health care spending—has thrown in the towel. The Affordable Care Act is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Dr. Rob Reid: Bridging research and operations at Group Health

  Robert (Rob) Reid, MD, PhD, answers questions about his new role as Group Health’s first-ever associate medical director of health services research & knowledge translation.
• Online messaging delivers follow-up care for depression

  Online messaging can deliver organized follow-up care for depression effectively and efficiently, according to a randomized controlled trial of 208 Group Health patients that the Journal of General Internal Medicine e-published March 2011.