About Us
Memberships & Affiliations
National Business Coalition on
Health
The Leapfrog Group
Indiana Health Information
Exchange
Board of Directors

Chairman – Mr. John Mutz
Chairman, Lumina Foundation
for  Education, Former Lt.
Governor  

Secy-Treasurer - Mr. Jeff
Goodwin  
Chief Operating Officer, Indiana
Manufacturers Association   

Mr. Kevin Brinegar –  
President, Indiana State
Chamber of Commerce  

Mr. Earl Goode
Chief of Staff, Office of the
Governor State of Indiana  

Mr. Matt Gutwein President,
Marion County Health & Hospital
Corp.   

Mr. David Johnson President
and CEO, Biocrossroads of
Indiana

Mr. Jim McClelland President,
Goodwill Industries of Central  
Indiana, Inc.   

Dr. Judith Monroe
Commissioner, Indiana State
Board of Health  

President– Dr. Ned Lamkin
4145 Washington Blvd.
Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN 46205-2616

Phone: (317) 283-2780
email: nlamkin@sbcglobal.net
Indiana Employers Quality Health Alliance
Working to improve the value of health care in Indiana.
    The Indiana Employers Quality Health Alliance, a member
    of the National Business Coalition on Health, is a coalition
    of Indiana employers representing over 50,000 employees.  
    Member companies range from very large  to quite small.  
    The Alliance, currently expanding statewide, is committed
    to creating a quality focused Indiana health care system
    which will provide nationally competitive quality care, cost
    efficiency and customer service through partnering health
    care providers.

Mission
The Alliance will partner with physicians and hospitals to establish a new health
care system by:
  • Benchmarking the best available national systems
  • Evaluating and supporting the continuing improvement of care
  • Providing employee education in wellness and disease
    prevention/management
  • Disease management programs
  • Educating member companies about quality, cost-effective health care
    and supporting their efforts to assure its availability to their employees

Guiding Principles
  • Our primary focus is quality and value in health care services
  • We work collaboratively with providers who are willing to work with us to
    improve quality and value in health care.
  • We use data to monitor quality and value and to enhance member
    decision making

Programs & Activities

Indiana Health Information Exchange - The Alliance helped establish and plays
a leadership role in the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a common
information platform for the exchange of clinical and administrative data among
health care providers, which data is also being used for quality and efficiency
measurement and improvement programs.   The Alliance will continue to push
for expansion toward ePrescribing and a virtual electronic medical record.

Leapfrog - The Alliance leads Leapfrog rollout in the northern 2/3 of Indiana with
an Indiana sponsorship of 155 employers.  In collaboration with the Indiana
Hospital and Health Association and its Patient Safety Institute, hospitals are
being encouraged to complete the Leapfrog Survey and improve their profiles.  

Products & Services -  The Indiana Employers Quality Health Alliance (IEQHA
or The Alliance) makes available a suite of products and services that member
employers may obtain economically and that will produce better quality and
efficiency of health services and lower costs to the employer.  From 2009
through 2010, the Alliance is presenting programs to help members
understand and become more able to participate in these services.   Detail on
participation is on the Members Only section, currently under development.

Subjects planned for these programs include:
•        Aligning incentives by rewarding patients and doctors by holding each
other mutually accountable for understanding and adhering to evidence based
medicine
•        Providing expert consultation at the time of potentially life-threatening,
highly invasive, and/or very expensive diagnoses in order to assure proper
diagnosis and intervention
•        Centers of Excellence for rare and expensive transplant cases that will
better inform and support patients with constrained costs for employers
•        Control of expensive contrast radiology services, e.g., CT and MRI, to
reduce over-utilization and lower costs of these expensive services
•        Providing the best possible care at the lowest possible cost for rare,
chronic and expensive hematologic illnesses
•        Assuring evidence-based cancer care to assure the likelihood of the best
possible outcomes with simultaneous control of cost
•        Public health collaboration in order to obtain the advantages of population
management for employers
•        Programs to minimize the incidence of chronic renal failure, reduce the
need of transplant or dialysis and assure the lowest possible cost for dialysis if
necessary
•        Supporting physician efforts to improve patient understanding and
progress in chronic care management
•        Structuring a value based approach to pharmacy use and cost control
•        The use of on-site (or “in-vicinity”) medical clinics in order to gain control
of day-to-day patient care and quality
•        Making sense of current hospital performance measurement and
reporting
•        Development and collaboration with a quality and efficiency-based
physician networks
•        The importance and benefits of establishing a statewide employer data
warehouse which is ultimately essential for patient and provider utilization,
quality, efficiency and cost management.  This is important to support all of the
other activities of the Alliance
•        An update on Healthcare IT in Indiana, including the Indiana Health
Information Exchange (Clinical Messaging and Quality Health First) and
ePrescribing – al helping to gain the advantages of the information revolution
•        The benefits to be achieved through self-funding and group purchasing.


Member Companies

Allison Payment Systems
2200 Production Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46241

Applied Extrusion Technologies
US Hwy 51 N
Terre Haute, IN 47805

Citizens Energy Corporation
2020 N. Meridian St.
Indianapolis, IN  46202

City of Indianapolis
200 E. Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Columbian Home Products
1600 Beech Street
Terre Haute, IN 47804

Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Inc.
1635 W. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46222-3899

Marion County Health & Hospital Corporation
3838 North Rural Street
Indianapolis, IN 46205-2930

Herff Jones, Inc.
4601 W. 62nd St.
Indianapolis, IN  46268

IMASERV, Inc
2400 One American Sq.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46282

Indiana State Chamber of Commerce
115 West Washington Street, Suite 8505
Indianapolis, Indiana 46244-0926

State of Indiana
State Capitol Building
Indianapolis, IN 46204