University of Minnesota/University of Puerto Rico: Practice Based Learning Collaborative: URAC Study: Medical Management Organizations Respond to 'Crossing the Quality Chasm'

February 10, 2005

URAC Study: Medical Management Organizations Respond to 'Crossing the Quality Chasm'

Monday February 7, 2:00 pm ET

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A new URAC study shows that medical management organizations support the idea of improving health care quality, but few have adopted specific initiatives related to the goals of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 2001 report, "Crossing the Quality Chasm."(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030501/URACLOGO )

The URAC study, "Translating the Quality Chasm Aims Into Medical Management Practice: An Examination of Support for and Implementation of the IOM's Six Aims," sought to discover how medical management organizations have responded to the 2001 report's challenge for health care organizations to pursue six major aims: that health care should be safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient and equitable. Results of the study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, are published on the URAC website, http://www.urac.org.