Partners
American Medical Informatics Association
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) plays a pivotal role in the transformation of the U.S. health system and makes measurable contributions to the improvement of the health of the nation through continued development and implementation of health information technology. AMIA is an integrating force that strengthens the nation’s ability to create and manage the science and knowledge base of health care. AMIA is active in the development of global health information policy and technology with particular emphasis on using health information technology to meet the needs of the underserved population.
Bridges to Excellence (BTE)
Bridges to Excellence (BTE) is a program designed to create significant leaps in the quality of care by recognizing and rewarding health care providers who demonstrate that they have implemented comprehensive solutions in the management of patient-centered care. The initiative is comprised of three individual programs: Diabetes Care Link, Cardiac Care Link, and Physician Office Link. Physicians who demonstrate high levels of performance in these areas are eligible for incentive bonuses paid by participating employers.
BTE is a General Electric-led employer group that includes the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) among its charter members and a diverse coalition of physicians, health plans, quality experts, and consultants to advance the pay-for-quality concept. Charter employers include General Electric, Ford Motor Company, UPS, Procter & Gamble, and Verizon, all of which offer bonus payments to physicians who deliver high-quality care to their employees.
Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL)
CITL was chartered in 2002 by Boston-based, nonprofit Partners Healthcare System as a research organization established to help guide the healthcare community in making more informed strategic IT investment decisions. Using a rigorous, analytic approach, CITL assesses information technologies, disseminates its research findings, and provides additional services designed to help healthcare providers realize greater value and improve quality of care. CITL’s research is also used by technology vendors to develop more effective healthcare IT products.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
HIMSS is the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of human health. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., and other locations across the country, HIMSS represents approximately 17,000 individual members and some 275 member corporations that employ more than 1 million people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational, and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care.
Massachusetts Medical Society
The Massachusetts Medical Society advocates for the shared interests of patients and the medical profession. It seeks to unite all physicians and serve the common interests of the profession. Its goals are to enhance and protect the physician-patient relationship and to preserve the physician’s ability to make clinical decisions for the benefit of the patient. The Society encourages the development of standards for high quality care. It promotes its code of ethics to physicians, patients and the public. The Society addresses the professional needs of physicians and takes a leadership role in the development of health care policy. It promotes medical education, training, research, and the continuing education of physicians.
The Institute for Healthcare Communications
Founded in 1987, the Institute for Healthcare Communication’s mission is to enhance the quality of health care by improving the communication between the clinician and patient through three major activities: education, research, and advocacy. The Institute stress the concept that effective communication between clinician and patient is a necessity, not an option.
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Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Prevention
The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Prevention was formed in 2004 , with the goal of improving patient safety and reducing medical errors through coordinating state agency initiatives and patient safety programs, promoting ongoing collaboration between the public and private sectors, and promoting safety through educating both health care providers and patients. The center is named for Betsy Lehman, a Boston Globe reporter who died in 1994 as a result of a chemotherapy overdose.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC is at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats. The CDC is globally recognized for conducting research and investigations and for its action oriented approach. CDC applies research and finding s to improve people’s daily living and responds to health emergencies.
HIMSS Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes Steering Committee
The use of healthcare information and management systems, standards and interoperability are essential to patient safety. The HIMSS Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes Steering Committee guides HIMSS efforts for this initiative. The Committee provides direction concerning all HIMSS projects, policies and other matters related to the application of health information technology towards improving safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of health and healthcare.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization driving the improvement of health by advancing the quality and value of health care. Founded in 1991 based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI offers comprehensive products and services. IHI is a reliable source of energy, knowledge, and support for a never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. The Institute helps accelerate change in health care by cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into action.
Massachusetts Association of Health Plans
The Massachusetts Association of Health Plans (MAHP) is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the development and value of health plans in Massachusetts. Its mission and vision are to improve health for all in Massachusetts by promoting affordable, safe, and coordinated health care and to create trust in the value that health plans contribute to the health care system.
Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
The Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors was established to develop a campaign in the Commonwealth to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors. The goals of the Coalition are to disseminate knowledge and information about the causes of sentinel events and develop strategies for prevention. The Coalition plans to drive improvement by making this information available to health professionals and health care institutions for use in their own quality improvement programs through a statewide campaign. This initiative seeks to strengthen the public’s trust and confidence in the health care delivery system as well, by increasing awareness of error prevention strategies through public and professional education.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s mission is to serve all the people of the Commonwealth, particularly the underserved, and to promote healthy people, healthy families, healthy communities, and healthy environments through compassionate care, education, and prevention.
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s mission is to serve all the people of the Commonwealth, particularly the underserved, and to promote healthy people, healthy families, healthy communities, and healthy environments through compassionate care, education, and prevention.
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
The 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.
Massachusetts Hospital Association
The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization comprised of hospitals and health systems, related organizations, and other members with common interest in promoting the health of the people of the Commonwealth. Through its leadership in public advocacy, education, and information, MHA represents and advocates for the collective interests of its member hospitals and health systems, and supports their efforts to provide high quality, cost effective, and accessible care.
Massachusetts SHARE
Massachusetts SHARE (Simplifying Healthcare Among Regional Entities) is a regional collaborative initiative operated by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. MA-SHARE seeks to promote the inter-organizational exchange of healthcare data using information technology, standards, and administrative simplification, in order to make accurate clinical health information available wherever needed in an efficient, cost-effective, and safe manner. MA-SHARE seeks to foster improvements in community clinical connectivity, allowing appropriate sharing of inter-organizational healthcare data among the various participants in the healthcare system – including patients, doctors and other practitioners, hospitals, government, insurers, HMOs, and other payers. The MA-SHARE operating model is generally conceived as that of a facilitator and incubator, in which projects exploring healthcare data connectivity will be undertaken in order to develop, plot and demonstrate new healthcare information technologies across communities and enterprises.
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) is the state’s development agency for renewable energy and the innovation economy, which is responsible for one-quarter of all jobs in the state. MTC administers the John Adams Innovation Institute and the Renewable Energy Trust. We work to stimulate economic activity in communities throughout the Commonwealth.
MedQIC
MedQIC is an online resource for Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and health care professionals working together to improve the quality of care in: Home Health Agencies, Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physician Offices. MedQIC is designed to stimulate transformational change by sharing best practices and improvement strategies for health care delivery.
National Quality Assurance
National Quality Assurance, USA (NQA) is one of the largest and longest established certification bodies. NQA provides certification and assessment services and related training to a wide range of manufacturing, commercial and service sectors. Established in 1990, it is a world-renowned registrar providing registration to a wide variety of quality management system standards and environmental systems standards.
The American Health Quality Association
The American Health Quality Association (AHQA) represents Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOS) and professionals working to improve the quality of healthcare in communities across America. AHQA maintains a close working relationship with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Quality Forum, major professional medical and health care associations, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission – serving as a professional resource partner on projects.
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