Aligning Financial and Other Incentives
Quality Health First and the Employers Forum of Indiana
2007 Award Winner

Quality Health First is designed to provide physicians with reports, alerts, reminders and other information to physicians to help monitor patients' health and wellness, including the management of common, chronic diseases. It utilizes the existing infrastructure already in place through the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) and Regenstrief Institute's Indiana Network for Patient Care, which is one of the nations largest and most respected clinical health repositories. This collaborative initiative is led by the IHIE and the Employers Forum of Indiana, with participation from health insurers and healthcare providers in the nine county Indianapolis area. The Quality Health First program combines claims data with electronically submitted clinical data to determine a physicians quality across commercial health insurers, Medicaid, Medicare and the non-insured, providing standardized quality measures used by physicians and health insurers.

Quality Health First Website: http://www.qualityhealthfirst.org/