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The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce that Bowel Cancer Australia, the leading bowel cancer charity in the country, has become a Silver-level sponsoring partner in support of the ICHOM Working Group on Colorectal Cancer. Founded in 2000, Bowel Cancer Australia’s mission is to help save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of people
  In 2013, Alan Brace, Deputy Chief Executive of the Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Wales, participated in Professor Michael Porter’s value-based health care course at Harvard Business School. In his coursework, Brace was struck by how neatly the value-based approach could link financial and clinical aims in a common vision. Returning to Wales, he
The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce our Strategic Alliance with Santeon, a leading Dutch hospital group. Santeon is comprised of six facilities, each of which has previously been an individual sponsor of ICHOM. This is our fifth Strategic Alliance and our second in the Netherlands. Santeon was formed in 2010 to improve patient care
The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce our new Strategic Alliance with Ramsay Health Care.  Founded over 50 years ago in Sydney, New South Wales, Ramsay has become one of the leading hospital groups in the world. In its 212 facilities in Australia, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom, Ramsay providers care for nearly
    The ICHOM team is pleased to announce a new Strategic Alliance with the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.  The Health Board provides healthcare for a population of over 639,000, approximately 21% of the total Welsh population, in Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen and South Powys in Wales. The Health Board is named after the
  The ICHOM team is pleased to announce a new Strategic Alliance with the Agency for Clinical Innovation in New South Wales, Australia. This pioneering organization was established in January 2010 to work with clinicians, consumers and managers to design and promote better healthcare throughout New South Wales. The ACI fosters collaboration and improvement through
A new article, co-written by ICHOM’s Thomas Kelley, describes the key importance of outcomes measurement for driving value in health care. Click here to read the article.
    In 2002, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) launched the first of over 20 Collaborative Quality Initiatives under its Value Partnerships program. This unique model formed the basis for a value-based health care ecosystem in the State of Michigan comprising a single dominant payer, an extensive network of providers, and a small
    What are the results of care that matter most to patients with coronary artery disease? Our condition Working Group, comprised of clinical experts and patient representatives, answered that question. Their work is now available in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Click here now to access this important paper. You can also download the Coronary
    The ICHOM team is pleased to announce our new Strategic Alliance with Erasmus Medical Center, one of the Netherlands’ leading health care providers and a pioneer in medical education and research. Erasmus MC is the first of several prestigious organizations, in the Netherlands and beyond, that will work closely with ICHOM to drive
In this key publication, ICHOM Standardization Director Annelotte van Bommel and her colleagues describe the evidence for cost-reduction and outcomes-improvement in surgical audits. They also make the case for moving audits into patient-reported outcomes in addition to typical clinical indicators. You can find this article in our library.

ICHOM in the Wall Street Journal

One of ICHOM’s key goals is to enable patients – the most important stakeholders in health care – to choose where to seek medical care based on trustworthy information about quality. But how should quality be defined? How should the quality of health care providers be assessed? The Wall Street Journal’s Melinda Beck investigates the
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