Strategies

In their efforts to improve quality and system performance, profiled state partnerships tend to employ five broad interrelated strategies: 

•    Data collection, aggregation, and standardization for performance measurement;
•    Public reporting and transparency of quality and/or cost data to drive accountability and improvement;
•    Consumer engagement to drive change and encourage care self-management; Provider engagement through evidence-based practice improvement tools and guidelines; and
•    Provider engagement through evidence-based practice improvement tools and guidelines; and
•    Payment reform and alignment of financial incentives to encourage value-based purchasing.

Although there are many activities occurring in states to improve quality, the initiatives highlighted here are those that are “owned” by the state quality improvement partnership, or those that are conducted by individual partners on behalf of, or in coordination with, the broader partnership, rather than individual partner initiatives.

Strategies by state partnership are summarized below.