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Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP)
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Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP)
Overview:
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) provides reliable information to help physicians improve the quality of care they provide their patients and help consumers take an active role in making informed decisions about their health care. MHQP is a broad-based coalition of physicians, hospitals, health plans, purchasers, consumers, academics, 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.
MHQP Core Competencies:
- Developing and implementing large-scale performance measurement and reporting initiatives
- Reporting reliable, actionable performance data on clinical quality and the patient experience to providers and the public
- Addressing critical methodological questions around measuring clinical effectiveness, patient experience, efficiency, and resource utilization
- Documenting the structure of ambulatory care in MA
- Aligning stakeholders to facilitate collaboration around health care quality improvement
- Engaging and educating patients and the public in understanding and advocating for quality and value in their health care.
Current projects:
- MHQP manages the day-to-day operations of the Greater Boston Aligning Forces for Quality (GB AF4Q) initiative-one of 16 communities across the country receiving funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) national Aligning Forces for Quality program. GB AF4Q works to develop a health care delivery system in Massachusetts where patients receive the right care at the right time in the right place. The initiative incorporates activities around RWJF core strategies including consumer engagement, performance measurement and reporting, ambulatory care quality improvement, a commitment to improving health equity, and addressing key elements of health care systems change including payment reform and engagement in health information technology (HIT).
- MHQP is a consortium partner in the MassHealth CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant. In its role with CHIPRA, MHQP manages and convenes the Massachusetts Child Health Quality Coalition (Coalition), a 60+ member collaborative of child health stakeholders across the spectrum of care and geography in Massachusetts including parents, hospitals, pediatric care providers, insurers, dentists, social and health service agencies and organizations, and community groups. MHQP is also working with partners to develop and implement measurement and reporting for 24 child health quality metrics.
- MHQP is raising efforts to better engage patients and the public to in health care quality and improvement. MHQP is working to develop and convene a Patient and Public Engagement Council (PPEC) to build a patient and public presence and voice in creating a system of care that puts the patient at the center. MHQP has also merged the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence (the Partnership) under its governance and operations to support efforts to better engage the public in understanding, advocating, and partnering to improve the quality and value of the care they and their families receive.
- MHQP is the analytic consultant to the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council, and works with the Council to plan public reporting on quality and cost measures on the Council’s website.
- MHQP’s fourth survey of Patients Experiences with Primary Care Physicians was fielded this spring 2011. Reporting of results to the physician community will take place in fall 2011 and the public reporting of results will occur in early 2012.
- MHQP’s eighth annual clinical quality report results will be disseminated to the physicians during fall 2011 and to the public for in early 2012.
- MHQP continues the development of, and is in the process of commercializing its Massachusetts Provider Database (MPD), a database that maps individual physicians to practice sites, medical groups and networks and is core to MHQP reporting efforts.
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