Appendix F: Resources
Better Quality Information Sites
Center for Health Information and Research-Arizona State University
http://chir.asu.edu
660 South Mill Avenue, Suite 312
Tempe, Arizona 85281
480-965-0122
chir@asu.edu
St. Luke's Health Initiatives (http://www.slhi.org/ahf_projects/phvmi/over_descr.shtml)
was a previous sponsor.
California Cooperative Healthcare
Reporting Initiative
http://www.cchri.org
c/o Pacific Business Group on Health (http://www.pbgh.org)
221 Main Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-281-8660
cmarkow@pbgh.org
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
http://www.mhqp.org
100 Talcott Avenue
Watertown, MA 02472
617-402-5020
info@mhqp.org
Minnesota Community Measurement
http://www.mnhealthcare.org
2550 University Avenue W., Suite 245N
St. Paul, MN 55114-1904
651-209-0390
info@mnhealthcare.org
Indiana Health Information Exchange
http://www.ihie.com
846 N. Senate Avenue, Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-664-1750
info@ihie.com
In conjunction with the Regenstrief Institute (http://www.regenstrief.org), the Indiana
Health Information Exchange runs the Quality Health FirstSM program (http://www.qualityhealthfirst.com),
a clinical quality program for health and chronic disease management that
provides standardized quality measures used by physicians and health insurers.
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare
Quality
http://www.wchq.org/index.php
P.O. Box 258100
Madison, WI 53725-8100
608-250-1223
608-294-3903 (fax)
info@wchq.org
Miscellaneous
Co-opetition: A Revolution Mindset That
Combines Competition and Cooperation: The Game Theory Strategy That's Changing
the Game of Business. Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff. New York: Doubleday, 1996. http://mayet.som.yale.edu/coopetition/index2.html.
Network for Regional Healthcare
Improvement
http://www.nrhi.org
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
accelerates improvement in the quality and value of health care delivery in the
United States by building and strengthening regional multistakeholder
coalitions and influencing national policy for regional coalitions.
Quality Measurement and Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Report Card Compendium
http://www.talkingquality.gov/compendium
A searchable directory of health care "report
cards" that provide comparative information on the quality of health plans,
hospitals, medical groups, individual physicians, nursing homes, and other
providers of care.
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems Surveys and Reporting Kit
https://www.cahps.ahrq.gov/CAHPSkit/Healthplan/HPChooseQx2.asp
This kit provides documentation for both the
current 3.0 version and the new 4.0 version of the CAHPS® Health Plan Survey.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
http://www.ihi.org/ihi
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a
not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout
the world.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and
Information Set
http://web.ncqa.org/tabid/59/Default.aspx
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and
Information Set is a tool that more than 90 percent of America's health plans use to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service.
Value-Driven Health Care
http://www.hhs.gov/valuedriven/
The
Department of Health and Human Services Web site provides extensive information
about the Value-Driven Health Care initiative.
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