American College of Surgeons, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Northwestern Medicine Form Partnership
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According to a release, funded by BCBSIL, the Collaborative will use the
"We're making an investment in the future of health care quality for
Each hospital will receive customized performance reports; areas of poor performance then become the focal point of improvement efforts for that hospital. In addition, Northwestern Medicine's Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center will lead the ISQIC Coordinating Center to provide quality improvement training and support, develop
"Research shows that when hospitals partner with each other to examine the safety and quality of care using high quality, detailed comparative data, they can learn from each other and improve far more than any one hospital working in isolation," said
"This Collaborative is a landmark surgical quality partnership for participating
"One of the real powers of a Collaborative comes with sharing the right type of health care data to improve patient care. ACS NSQIP uses risk-adjusted data that enables surgeons and hospitals to compare their outcomes with other participating surgeons and hospitals to help them understand where they're performing well, and where they need to improve. Given the stakeholders and participants in this current Collaborative, we are confident great accomplishments and advances will be seen."
By improving the surgical outcomes of patients, research also indicates that substantial healthcare savings can be achieved as a result. According to a study in the
Similar surgical collaboratives have been setup with support from BCBS in other U.S. states, all of which have experienced a dramatic reduction in surgical complications and healthcare costs. The ISQIC program however, is the first to utilize several new improvement strategies to better engage hospitals and create an even greater reduction of surgical complications.
"Other states have tried to do something similar," said Bilimoria, who is also a faculty scholar at the
The Illinois Collaborative is also the first to provide all participating hospitals with the opportunity to apply for pilot grants to help them implement solutions to issues identified using their ISQIC performance reports. Unlike the other collaboratives, all of the participating hospitals will undertake annual quality improvement projects together as part of the three-year ISQIC program. The ISQIC program begins recruiting Illinois hospitals in
If successful, ISQIC's program would become a model for expansion to additional
To learn more about the ISQIC program, please visit its website, or call 312-694-7742.
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