I have had the privilege of being the founding chairman of two organizations in the state of Wisconsin which are now considered national models by many leaders. The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (www.wchq.org) is a unique non-profit focused on reporting all payor all patient quality data on a range of indicators. It was one of the CMS pilot sites for better quality information and it is part of the value exchange established by former HHS Secretary Leavitt.
The Wisconsin Health Information Organization (www.whio.org) is a non-profit focused on reporting resource utilization on physician groups through an administrative claims data base which is built on data contributed by the health plans in the state.
These organizations would not exist if it weren't for the collaborative leadership of many individuals representing insurance companies,providers,employers,and state government.
Read the following third party assessments of how we actually did it.
Commonwealth_Aiming_Higher_State_Profiles_Wisconsin_final (1)AHRQ Leadership in collaboration1 (2)AHRQ Leadership in collaboration1 (2)
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