Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

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