Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Journal Article Continuant Continuant Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-07T10:02:40 RDF description of Taking innovation to scale in primary care practices: the functions of health care extension - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn7528 public Quality Improvement 2 Primary Health Care 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1100 15731 <p>Health care extension is an approach to providing external support to primary care practices with the aim of diffusing innovation. EvidenceNOW was launched to rapidly disseminate and implement evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular preventive care in the primary care setting. Seven regional grantee cooperatives provided the foundational elements of health care extension-technological and quality improvement support, practice capacity building, and linking with community resources-to more than two hundred primary care practices in each region. This article describes how the cooperatives varied in their approaches to extension and provides early empirical evidence that health care extension is a feasible and potentially useful approach for providing quality improvement support to primary care practices. With investment, health care extension may be an effective platform for federal and state quality improvement efforts to create economies of scale and provide practices with more robust and coordinated support services.<p> document-rn7528 Organizational Innovation Taking innovation to scale in primary care practices: the functions of health care extension 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 Collaboration Delivery of Health Care 37 26042 Health Affairs