Milena Vainieri

TL;DR: By its design, in which different data sources are combined for comprehensive analyses, QUALICOPC will advance the state of the art in primary care research and contribute to the discussion on the merit of strengthening primary care systems and to evidence based health policy development.

TL;DR: The initial results support the idea that systematic benchmarking and public disclosure of data are powerful tools to guarantee the balanced and sustained improvement of the health care systems, but only if they are integrated with the regional governance mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the novel experience of the Tuscan performance evaluation system (PES) and discuss the critical factors that could have led to the PES success, including visual reporting system, the linkage between PES and CEO's reward system, public disclosure of data, the high level of employees and managers involvement into the entire process and the strong political commitment.

TL;DR: The aim of the paper is to describe the study carried out in the Tuscan Health System in Italy on how to set priorities in the disinvestment process for re-allocation, which demonstrated that, at the regional level, 2-7% of the healthcare budget can be re- allocated if all the institutions achieve the regional average or the best practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the development of performance measurement systems (PMSs) that can assess the population-based value creation process across multiple healthcare organizations while adopting a patient-based perspective.