Links

Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council

Massachusetts residents can now search a new website to compare the cost and quality of care at different hospitals, part of an ambitious state plan to help control healthcare costs by giving consumers more information.

Center for Value-Based Health Management

Provides information, tools, resources, and best practices to help make better informed decisions in the design and implementation of employee health management initiatives.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Helps accelerate change in health care by cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into action.

Lean Enterprise Institute

Promotes and advances the principles of lean thinking in every aspect of business and across a wide range of industries.

Massachusetts Health Care Reform Coalition

A broad partnership of business, labor, providers, insurers, advocates and consumers have come together to promote the successful implementation of Massachusetts Health Care Reform.

MN Community Measurement©

Aims to accelerate the improvement of health by publicly reporting Minnesota's health care information.

Puget Sound Health Alliance

Focuses on defining, measuring, reporting and rewarding affordable health care that is proven to work.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

Offers a science-based, methodological approach to analyzing and proposing solutions that aims to repair a broken healthcare system.

Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality

Develops performance measures for assessing the quality of healthcare services and guides the collection, validation and analysis of data related to these measures.

Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) — Checkpoint

CheckPoint provides information to purchasers on the quality of care provided by hospitals, consumers to help them choose a hospital and hospitals for quality improvement.

If you are a value-based provider or purchaser, and are interested in exchanging links with the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, email Kim Zwiers with your web site address, your organization’s focus and appropriate contact information.

The Center will be an important catalyst for the creation of an environment that encourages and supports the best health care providers to deliver value to their customers…