Resources: Footnotes

1. Wagner E., Austin B, Coleman C. It Takes a Region: Creating a Framework to Improve Chronic Disease Care. 2006
2. Institute of Medicine. Committee for Quality in Health Care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001.
3. States Getting Connected: Quality and Safety Driving Health IT Planning in a Majority of the States in the United States. eHealth Initiative. July, 2006.
4. See eHealth Initiative State Legislative Tracker: http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/communities/community.aspx?Section=288
5. Department of Health and Human Services Web Site. Value Driven Health Care: Chartering Value Exchanges. http://www.hhs.gov/valuedriven/communities/communityleaders/communities.html Accessed October 2007.
6. Institute of Medicine, "The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century." 1988.
7. ibid.
8. Foley, John. "Blueprint for Change," Information Week, January 2004. Article accessed April 2007 at: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17500908.