Collection

2015 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Christine Cassel, National Quality Forum

community level; set, assess, and achieve population-level goals; and encourage providers to engage stakeholders outside of the traditional health care system. 5.3: Existing Federal community-health needs assessment and planning processes should be leveraged to promote systems thinking at the community level. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and TechnologyGoal 5: Share lessons learned fromsuccessful improvement efforts Recommendation 6: Promote awards, challenges, and prizes to promote the use of systems methods and tools in health care. 6.1: The Federal Government should build on existing awards programs (e.g. the Baldrige awards) to recognize health-care providers successfully applying system