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December 19, 2006

Research Grants Provide Physicians in Training With Unique Self-Assessment/Quality Improvement Tool (pdf)

In an innovative effort to expose physicians to self- assessment and quality improvement early in their careers, and to evaluate the use of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) quality improvement tools in residency and fellowship training programs, the ABIM Foundation has awarded research grants to eight training programs nationwide.

September 22, 2006

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Commends IOM P4P Report, But Encourages a More Expansive Definition of Physician Quality (pdf)

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recognizes the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for its thoughtful, insightful report on accelerating improvements in Medicare via pay-for-performance (P4P).

September 20, 2006

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Commends The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System for its National Scorecard Report (pdf)

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and ABIM Foundation recognize The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System for its unsettling report (9/20/06) on the condition of our nation’s health care system as compared to the rest of the world.

June 22, 2006

Health Care Industry Leaders Explore Ways to Define, Measure and Improve Efficiency(pdf)

The ABIM Foundation today released summary findings from a roundtable, co-hosted by the Institute of Medicine, that brought together a diverse group of health care industry leaders to explore the issue of efficiency in health care – in particular, ways to reduce health care costs without sacrificing quality.

March 27, 2006

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation Provides Physician Community with Quality Improvement Resource as Part of Ongoing Program to Enhance Care (pdf)

As part of its ongoing program to foster the use of measurement and quality improvement processes by physicians to improve care, the ABIM Foundation has developed a DVD that explains the attitudes of physicians who were early adopters of Quality Improvement (QI) and what impact QI has had on their practices.

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