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Being a leading health care provider is more than just helping people be well. Health care is multi-faceted, and improving all aspects of it means approaching solutions from every angle. This site shares the many ways we push the boundaries of what’s possible for health care in order to make it better, more affordable, more reliable, and safer.

You’ll see how we invest dollars to save dollars in the long run. You’ll see how we translate science into advanced care practices that lead to better health outcomes and reduced costs. You’ll read about the sustainable solutions we’ve implemented to drive change within our own system, and the ways we’re contributing to health care reform solutions on a regional and national level.

Improving Medication Use

Staying on Top of Prescription Drugs

Jim Carlson on creating a pharmacy system designed to keep Group Health's patients safe and provide the best care possible.

Health Care Reform

Finding a Better Way to Pay for Health Care

The fee-for-service payment system rewards doing “more stuff” instead of “getting well”, so what we're spending on health care has not made us healthier. We need a payment system where care and coverage work together to reward value, not volume.

Transforming Primary Care

Looking Beyond Silos to Fix the Broken Health Care System

Group Health CEO on his recent commentary in JAMA- Internal Medicine discussing how Lean management promises significant improvements to quality and reducing cost when applied across the whole continuum of a patient’s care.

Health Care Reform

To be Affordable, We Must Take Bold Steps

Group Health CEO Scott Armstrong offers three interventions to provide the framework for creating integrated, coordinated systems of care that are aligned around one common goal—the goal of better health.

Group Health Research

Colon Cancer Screening Doubles with Electronic Record Use

Group Health Research used electronic health records to identify patients who weren’t screened regularly for cancer of the colon and rectum and to encourage them to be screened. This automated approach doubled patients’ rates of on-time screening—and saved health costs—over two years.

Spokane

Taking Steps to Solve the Affordability Puzzle at Group Health

Like all other health care organizations, Group Health is facing a radically changing health care market and the pressure of rising costs. In Spokane and across Washington state, we are adapting in ways that put our patients’ needs at the core and ultimately bringing more services to our members.

Health Care Reform

Value in the Age of Sequestration: What Congress Could Learn from Group Health

At Group Health, we're are all working together to find the most common-sense strategies for improving services while cutting costs. Here’s hoping Congress can apply this model too.

Transforming Primary Care

Group Health and Seattle startup to collaborate in creation of Northwest worksite clinics

A collaboration with Group Health and Vera Whole Health is underway to offer Washington state employers the convenience of work site care clinics that focus on wellness and health coaching.

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