Aim |
To provide all health
care stakeholders information that enables quality improvement activities at
the policy and the practice levels. |
To collect and report
standardized, reliable health plan, and provider performance data.
To promote the use of accurate and
comparable quality measures within health care.
To create efficiency in data
collection, leading to reduced burden and cost to all participants.
To provide a source for expert
advice to consumer reporting entities. |
To use information technology and
shared clinical information.
To improve the quality, safety,
and efficiency of health care in the State of Indiana.
To create unparalleled research
capabilities for health researchers.
To exhibit a successful model of
health information exchange for the rest of the country.
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To improve the quality
of health care services delivered to the residents of Massachusetts through
broad-based collaboration among health care stakeholders. |
To accelerate the improvement of
health by publicly reporting health care information. |
To improve the quality
of health care in the State of Wisconsin through the development and public
reporting of a comprehensive range of health care performance measures. |
Collaborative
Composition |
Arizona providers, employers, health plans, a State university,
and a community health organization |
Health care purchasers, plans, and
providers |
Institutions
representing hospitals, providers, researchers, public health organizations,
and economic development groups |
Physicians, hospitals, health
plans, consumers, purchasers, and government agencies |
Health plans, medical groups,
physicians, patients, employers, and others |
Physician groups, hospitals,
health plans, integrated delivery systems, and business partners/purchasers |
Community
Definition |
Maricopa County, Arizona, which has roughly 60% of the
State's population |
The State of California |
Nine-county Indianapolis metropolitan statistical area, accounting for 26% of the State's population |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
Report on over 100
primary provider groups, representing 700 clinics in Minnesota and bordering
counties, covering roughly 90% of primary care delivered in the State.
Beginning to report on specialty medical groups. Data sources include eight
health plans and two county-based purchasing organizations. |
Individual clinics that
make up the health systems in the collaborative, representing roughly 40% of
the licensed physicians in Wisconsin |
Public Reporting
Level |
Not applicable |
Health plan level
Physician group level
for patient assessment survey results |
Not applicable |
Hospital level in 1998
Physician network in
2005
Medical group level for
patient experience survey results in 2006 |
Medical group and on
two measures at clinic site level |
Physician group |
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850