Report Overview The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ), in collaboration with Health Innovation Program, developed the Wisconsin Health Disparities Report to identify where disparities in health outcomes and care exist in Wisconsin and to help inform and accelerate programs that are working to eliminate disparities. The goal of this report is to present recent… Read more »
Overview To identify and reduce disparities in healthcare quality, we are partnering with the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) and the Collaborative Center for Health Equity to measure and publicly report on disparities in the quality of healthcare in Wisconsin. On September 19, 2019, the 2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report was released. This report was… Read more »
The PROKids team, led by Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, received new NIH funding to develop standard guidance for the use of pediatric PROMIS metrics in ambulatory clinical populations. In collaboration with leadership from prominent child health advocacy organizations and delivery systems nationally, as well as other PROMIS experts and the Institute for Clinical and Translational… Read more »
HIP collaborates annually with the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) to sponsor a learning event on topics of current importance to health in Wisconsin. This year’s event will showcase several national and state models that are successfully expanding access and integrating behavioral health services into primary care settings. HIP Investigator Rachel Grob will be… Read more »
Dr. Maureen Smith, HIP Director, was recently featured in a video from the Wisconsin Partnership Program about her disparities project with the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality and the Collaborative Center for Health Equity. This project aims to develop and implement a publicly reported measure of disparity in the quality of care in Wisconsin and… Read more »
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality released the Rural Wisconsin Chronic Disease Toolkit, and updated the Toolkit for Improving Hypertension Care & Outcomes and the Toolkit for Improving Diabetes Care & Outcomes. The new Rural Wisconsin Chronic Disease toolkit was developed in conjunction with the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC) to provide healthcare organizations providing… Read more »
Dr. Elizabeth Magnan et al. looked at combinations of chronic conditions among patients with diabetes to examine their relationships with diabetes quality metrics. They analyzed 12 conditions concordant with diabetes care to define classes based on co-occurrence: severe cardiac, cardiac, noncardiac vascular, risk factors, and no concordant comorbidities. Patients had distinct quality metric achievement by… Read more »
Dr. Maureen Smith was recently awarded a 4-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to support a Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)-sponsored effort in collaboration with the Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) to measure and publicly report disparities in the quality of care for health systems across the state of Wisconsin. While Wisconsin… Read more »
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality(link is external) recently partnered with HIP to make 3 improvement toolkits available on HIPxChange. The toolkits present evidence-based strategies and a variety of supporting resources that healthcare provider organizations can use to improve care and outcomes in 3 areas: blood sugar (A1c) control for patients with diabetes, blood pressure… Read more »
In a recent article in The New York Times, Dr. Gretchen Schwarze discusses the controversy surrounding the use of 30-day mortality as a surgical success measure. Focusing on reducing 30-day mortality, which is frequently used in the public reporting of quality and, more recently, to determine Medicare penalties, can result in diminished quality of life for… Read more »
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