Community Leader

Employers’ Health Coalition designated a Community Leader for Value Driven Healthcare
by the Secretary of the Department of Health & and Human Services.
As part of the Value-Driven Health Care initiative, the Department of Health & Human Services Secretary has recognized a limited number of multi-participant organizations that support the Four Cornerstones of Value Based Healthcare.  Regional public-private collaboration is essential to the success of this initiative.  At its core, health care is local; it is provided in a diverse range of environments that differ in their history, resources, populations served, market characteristics, and medical cultures. 

What is a Community Leader for Value-Driven Health Care?
A Community Leader for Value-Driven Health Care is a multi-participant organization working to achieve the four cornerstones of Value-Driven Health Care:  interoperable health information technology (health IT); transparency of price information; transparency of quality information; and the use of incentives to promote high-quality and cost-efficient health care.  A Community Leader should also embody the following characteristics or have the capacity to develop these characteristics:

• Recognized by HHS as a Community Leader;
• Active engagement with critical stakeholders in the community;
• Registered non-profit organization with staff or consultant expertise;
• Demonstrated financial sustainability;
• Facilitating the collection of provider-level measurement across the six Institute Of Medicine performance domains (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered);
• Using (or promoting the use of) performance measures for:
• Public reporting of costs and consumer satisfaction
• Reward and foster better performance
• Improvement by providers
• User of inter-operable health information technologies
• Fostering collaboration across multiple stakeholders and serve as a hub for sharing information and dialogue;
• Supporting knowledge transfer and sharing lessons learned
• Conducting ongoing evaluation and improvement of efforts.
• Use national provider performance measures effectively.