Appendix A: Better Quality Information (BQI) Pilot Site Overview
Regional Coalition Collaboration Guide
Pilot Site Characteristics | Center for Health Information and Research- Arizona State University | California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative | Indiana Health Information Exchange | Massachusetts Health Quality Partners | Minnesota Community Measurement | Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality |
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Founding Date | 19951 | 1993 | 2004 | 1995 | 2002 | 2002 |
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Collaborative Composition | Arizona providers, employers, health plans, a State university, and a community health organization | Health care purchasers, plans, and providers | Institutions representing hospitals, providers, researchers, public health organizations, and economic development groups | Physicians, hospitals, health plans, consumers, purchasers, and government agencies | Health plans, medical groups, physicians, patients, employers, and others | Physician groups, hospitals, health plans, integrated delivery systems, and business partners/purchasers |
Community Definition | Maricopa County, Arizona, which has roughly 60% of the State's population | The State of California | Nine-county Indianapolis metropolitan statistical area, accounting for 26% of the State's population | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts | Report on over 100 primary provider groups, representing 700 clinics in Minnesota and bordering counties, covering roughly 90% of primary care delivered in the State. Beginning to report on specialty medical groups. Data sources include eight health plans and two county-based purchasing organizations. | Individual clinics that make up the health systems in the collaborative, representing roughly 40% of the licensed physicians in Wisconsin |
Implementation of Physician Performance Improvement Efforts | Planned | 1997 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2004 |
Public Reporting Launch | Currently not publicly reporting | 1994 | Pilot testing in 2006 | 1995 | 2004 | 2003 |
Public Reporting Level | Not applicable | Health plan level Physician group level for patient assessment survey results | Not applicable | Hospital level in 1998 Physician network in 2005 Medical group level for patient experience survey results in 2006 | Medical group and on two measures at clinic site level | Physician group |
Current Reporting Frequency | Not applicable | Annual | Monthly | Annual | Annual | Annual |
1 Arizona HealthQuery is not synonymous with St. Luke's Health Initiatives. Arizona HealthQuery began with funding from the Flinn Foundation, St. Luke's Health Initiatives' funding began approximately 4 years later.