Six of the nation’s leading health care organizations will be collaborating in an effort aimed towards improving healthcare quality and reducing costs nationwide. The organizations will share data on outcomes and protocols for selected treatments to develop models for optimal care.
The Collaborative also aims to see these models replicated across the country. The six healthcare organizations involved in the collaborative are Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic. These organizations comprise of a combined patient population of over 10 million.
The Collaborative will begin its mission by focusing on eight conditions where related treatment costs have been rapidly increasing and where quality and outcome of treatments are widely varied throughout the nation. These conditions and treatments include knee replacement, diabetes, heart failure, asthma, weight loss surgery, labor and delivery, spine surgery, and depression. Treatment for these conditions amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars in medical costs each year.
“By collaborating to gather data and identify the most effective care models, we can address variation in treatment, cost, and outcomes to give patients the quality care they need and bend the cost curve down in a meaningful way,” said Dr. Brent James of Intermountain Healthcare.
The aim of the Collaborative is three-fold; to develop models to reduce cost of healthcare, improve quality of healthcare, and transfer knowledge to other healthcare systems.
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