The following seven Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives founded NRHI in 2004 and 2005:
The California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative (CCHRI) is a collaborative of health care purchasers, plans, and providers that was convened in 1993 by the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH). The Steering Committee is made up of an equal number of representatives from health plans, providers, and purchasers/consumers. CCHRI collects data and issues reports on the performance of physicians and physician groups and health plans.
The California Quality Collaborative (CQC) evolved from what was previously known as the Breakthroughs in Chronic Care Program (BCCP). It has a 14-member Steering Committee with representatives of physician groups, health plans, and others. The California Quality Collaborative's focus is on quality improvement. Its sister organization, the California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative, develops and implements quality measurement and reporting initiatives.
The mission of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) is to champion the cause of health care quality and to accelerate improvement in the value of the health care we deliver to the populations we serve. ICSI's vision is to be a collaboration that is deemed essential by its members for their improvement of health care and deemed essential by our community as a trusted voice for quality in health care.
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners is a broad-based coalition of physicians, hospitals, health plans, purchasers, consumers, and government agencies working together to promote improvement in the quality of health care services in Massachusetts. MHQP was first established in 1995 by a group of Massachusetts health care leaders who identified the importance of valid, comparable measures to drive improvement.
Minnesota Community Measurement's mission is to accelerate the improvement of health by publicly reporting health care information. A nonprofit entity dedicated to improving the quality of health care in Minnesota, the organization has three goals: 1) Improve care and support the quality initiatives of providers and the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI); 2) Reduce reporting-related expenses for medical groups, health plans, and regulators through more efficient and effective regulation, and 3) Communicate findings in a fair, usable, and reliable way to medical groups, regulators, purchasers, and consumers.
The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) is a multi-stakeholder regional coalition seeking to improve healthcare safety and quality and contain costs through the use of evidence-based practices, the elimination of waste and error and development of improved and replicable clinical and reimbursement models.
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality is a voluntary consortium of organizations learning and working together to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare for the people of Wisconsin. WCHQ collaborates for: the development of ambulatory care measures that enable physician groups and/or health systems to collect quality of care data on all patients; open sharing of quality performance data through public reporting; and the identification and sharing of best practices for improving performance of all members.
NRHI Founders
California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative
California Quality Collaborative
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
Minnesota Community Measurement
Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality
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