Partner for Quality Care reports are available

Regence is working with partners across the spectrum of health care to form new and advance existing collaboratives that broaden successful programs regionally and support the transformation of our health care system. 

When multiple entities invest resources together:

• Learning is shared
• Duplication is minimized
• The combined results are greater and
• Community-wide investment and usage is encouraged

In 2007, Regence decided to pursue making quality measures available on a community basis by partnering with community collaboratives. In Oregon, Regence applauds the work the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Quality Corp) has done in collecting data from the payers in the community and producing quality performance measures that are available to the public.

Quality Corp's initiative is focused on measuring, reporting, and improving the quality of health care preventive services and treatment for people with chronic illnesses. The 11 measures of primary care quality use nationally endorsed specifications and are widely accepted as indicators of important primary care processes.

Regence participated in the initiative along with other health plans by providing claims data in compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards and funding.

• Clinic-specific performance measures will be available on the Partner for Quality Care Web Site at the end of February
• Provider specific information is not publicly available, but is available on a secure Web site. Clinics and medical practices can use the data to evaluate systems of care to determine what to improve about the clinic practice. Some examples are:
• Download patient-level data and contact patients identified with care gaps
• Meet with other physicians in the clinic to look at variation in scores and discuss how to improve as a group
• Email Partner for Quality Care to have a Quality Improvement specialist meet with your staff. They can also be reached by telephone at (503) 241-3571.

Information for a Healthy Oregon: Statewide Report on Health Care Quality is available on the Partner for Quality Care Web site.

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