Appendix A: Better Quality Information (BQI) Pilot Site Overview

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
Founding Date	19951	1993	2004	1995	2002	2002
Aim	To provide all health care stakeholders information that enables quality improvement activities at the policy and the practice levels.	To collect and report standardized, reliable health plan, and provider performance data. To promote the use of accurate and comparable quality measures within health care. To create efficiency in data collection, leading to reduced burden and cost to all participants. To provide a source for expert advice to consumer reporting entities.	To use information technology and shared clinical information. To improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care in the State of Indiana. To create unparalleled research capabilities for health researchers. To exhibit a successful model of health information exchange for the rest of the country.	To improve the quality of health care services delivered to the residents of Massachusetts through broad-based collaboration among health care stakeholders.	To accelerate the improvement of health by publicly reporting health care information.	To improve the quality of health care in the State of Wisconsin through the development and public reporting of a comprehensive range of health care performance measures.
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.

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