Driving Health Care Consumer and Purchaser Value

Government health care purchasers and stakeholders expect the best value from their investments in health care. Government leaders around the globe have led initiatives to drive improvement in the cost, quality and safety of health care. While progress has been realized, many health care providers remain unaware, unengaged, or unprepared to support a shared vision for improvement. Gaps in evidence-based care delivery, patient-centered care and interdisciplinary coordination affect the quality and cost of health care around the world.

Addressing Serious Gaps in Professional Training & Continuing Education

In the 2001 Crossing the Quality Chasm Report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) brought attention to serious gaps in health professions education. The committee concluded that "All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics." Aside from promising pockets of innovation, and seven years hence, health care professional training and continuing education programs remain largely unchanged around the world.

Supporting Health Care Workforce Readiness

HealthSciences Institute's Chronic Care Professional (CCP) certification program was designed in response to the calls from both the Institute of Medicine and World Health Organization (WHO) to transform health care professional training from discipline and disease-focused, to interdisciplinary and patient centered. The CCP competency model has been aligned with interdisciplinary competency models developed by WHO and IOM. The CCP program has been continuously updated in collaboration with a HealthSciences' interdisciplinary advisory board, and through industry, association, and participant input. Learn more.

HealthSciences Partnership Platform With Government Purchasers & Consumer Groups

• Support delivery of improved value to health care consumers and purchasers through HealthSciences Institute's partner organizations and CCP participants
• Raise awareness regarding health care workforce competency gaps
• Support inclusion of Chronic Care Professional (CCP) certification as a contractee requirement in health care purchasing and service contracts between purchasers and health plans, disease management organizations, and health systems
• Develop regional interdisciplinary health professional summits and learning communities to raise awareness, support engagement and build patient-centered care competencies

HealthSciences has led award-winning regional state government initiatives for the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Vermont (three of the top performing states in health care rankings), as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Ontario. To learn more about HealthSciences government purchaser initiatives and partnerships, contact us.