Improving Health Care Through Collaboration in Michigan and Beyond
August 18, 2022
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 […]
Making Michigan Health Care Safer, Better and More Effective
October 26, 2021
National Healthcare Quality Week is a time to recognize the advances made among health care professionals and researchers toward improving health outcomes, including one of the nation’s largest, most successful quality collaborations right here in Michigan. Through the Value Partnerships portfolio of programs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has partnered with hospitals and physicians across the state in initiatives that have improved clinical quality, efficiency, and health outcomes; saved lives; and prevented over $2.2 billion in health expenses. “Nearly […]
Value Partnerships featured in national ABIM Building Trust initiative
May 24, 2021
The Value Partnerships portfolio is featured as a trust-building practice in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Building Trust Initiative, launched this month. The initiative recognizes the importance of trust in health care as essential to better collaboration among health professionals and better health outcomes for patients. Through the BuildingTrust.org website, ABIM is sharing trust-building […]
Anesthesiology CQI reduces greenhouse gas emissions
April 1, 2021
The Anesthesiology Performance Improvement and Reporting Exchange CQI, or ASPIRE, aims to improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients receiving anesthesia. Now, participants are focusing on improving population health as they help the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “We often forget that providing health care can generate great amounts of waste and pollution, causing disease […]
National summit aims to expand Collaborative Quality Initiative model to other states
November 7, 2017
Surgeons from California, Washington, South Carolina – even from the United Kingdom – travelled to Northern Michigan in early October to learn about Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Collaborative Quality Initiative model. Roughly 75 surgeons and health professionals gathered at an inaugural summit to share information and experiences, and inspire similar initiatives in other […]