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| Indiana Employers Quality Health Alliance |
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:
Guiding Principles
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 |