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Cost Avoided Over Last Decade
85% of Blue Cross Primary Care Providers
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COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
Improving Health Care Through Collaboration in Michigan and Beyond
If you owned a business, it would be unlikely that you would regularly meet with your competitors to talk about best practices in order to better serve your customers. Yet Michigan health care providers from competing systems do this regularly to improve health care delivery, on measures from cost to quality. And you, the customer, benefit greatly. One way providers work together is through statewide […]
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
CDC highlights Michigan CQI response to COVID-19 antibiotic overuse
More than half of Michigan COVID-19 patients received unnecessary antibiotics in the early days of the pandemic, but that number decreased significantly due to a joint effort by the Michigan Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken notice and featured the CQI work in a national stewardship report, […]
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
Participants in the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) have improved patient safety through two important projects. First, physicians have reduced the number of opioid pills prescribed to patients following certain vascular surgeries. Second, they reduced radiation exposure during angioplasty procedures. In the first project, participating physicians saw the need and the […]