The following organizations founded NRHI in 2006:
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 Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), a business coalition of 50 purchasers, seeks to improve the quality and availability of health care while moderating cost. Since 1989, PBGH has played a leading role both nationally and in California in health care measurement, trend moderation, and system accountability through public reporting.
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
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
Minnesota Community Measurement
Pacific Business Group on Health
Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality
Sponsors
