It is critically important to include consumer perspectives in multi-stakeholder health care quality improvement initiatives.
Health Care Acronyms
This document contains frequently-used health care acronyms.
Health Care Glossary
This document contains the definitions of frequently-used health care terms.
Consumer Principles for Health and Care Planning in an Electronic Environment
Consumers envision the next generation of care plans as a multidimensional, person-centered planning process built on a dynamic, electronic platform. The Consumer Partnership for eHealth developed a set of Consumer Principles to guide policy efforts to build the...
How Consumer Advocates Can Get Involved
To effectively advocate for a medical home that is truly patient centered, it is necessary to understand some of the changes that need to happen in the health care system.
Why Consumer Advocates Should Get Involved
The medical home model is gaining momentum nationwide as a way to improve the quality of care and reduce costs by offering more accessible, comprehensive, and coordinated primary care.
Health Information Technology: The Foundation for Health Reform
Health information technology (health IT) is a foundational component of a more patient-centered, effective and efficient health care system where women and their health care providers have access to the information they need anytime, anywhere.
Leveraging Meaningful Use to Reduce Health Disparities: An Action Plan
Health information technology offers great promise in addressing and reducing health disparities, yet there has been little actual progress on this critical issue. The Consumer Partnership for eHealth has created an evidence-based action plan for leveraging the EHR...
Consumer Partnership for eHealth
CPeH amplifies the consumer voice to ensure that health IT initiatives and policies are implemented according to the needs of patients and families.
Top Ten Consumer Benefits of Health Information Technology
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program (e.g. “Meaningful Use”) is an essential catalyst for improving the quality, safety and efficiency of care. Patients and families have already begun to experience early benefits, which will grow exponentially in...
Telemedicine: Improving Women’s Access to Health Care Through Innovation
Telemedicine is the delivery of any health care service or the transmission of health information using telecommunications technology. It includes videoconferencing, transmission of still images, patient portals, remote monitoring of vital signs, and more.
Medicaid Block Grants and Caps Will Hurt Women and Families
Medicaid, the nation’s principal safety net health insurance program, provides critical health care for millions of lower income women, including many older women and women with disabilities.
Steps for Engaging Consumers
Ensuring substantive and meaningful consumer participation in a health IT initiative can help facilitate adoption of patient-centered innovations, and ultimately, speed and enhance the adoption of health IT in a community.
Consumer Vision for Health IT and Diagram (Diagram)
As the nation begins to reform our health care system, it is clear that Health Information Technology (HIT) is a critical and foundational element for change. References to HIT were woven throughout the recently enacted health reform law as a foundational component of...
Consumer Vision for Health IT and Diagram (PDF)
As the nation begins to reform our health care system, it is clear that Health Information Technology (HIT) is a critical and foundational element for change. References to HIT were woven throughout the recently enacted health reform law as a foundational component of...
EACH Act Coalition Letter to Congress
LETTER | 26 organizations urge Congress to bring the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act to the floor for a vote before the end of the year.
Our Communities Hold the Solutions
REPORT | The importance of full-spectrum doulas to reproductive health and justice
Our Communities Hold the Solutions – Recommendations for Congress
BRIEF | Full-spectrum doulas are more important than ever in the post-Roe landscape.
Closing the Coverage Gap Could Improve Coverage, Economic Security, and Health Outcomes for Over 650,000 Black Women
Health Care Costs Will Rise if ACA’s Premium Tax Credits Expire
American Rescue Plan Act ACA Premium Tax Credits (PTCs) are set to expire this year. At a time of rising costs for families, in particular for families of color and families with low incomes, a jump in the cost of health premiums could force millions to become...
