How the Health Alliance was Formed
- Purchaser Leadership: King County Executive Ron Sims
- Unsustainable cost growth in health care
- Task Force Report completed in 2004
- Standardize care based on evidence
- Standardize how quality is measured
- Improve quality, decrease waste, slow cost growth
- Align incentives to recognize and reward quality
- Recommended creation of public-private collaborative
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