More than 35 healthcare professionals including Chris Queram, CEO of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ), joined forces to write a powerful new book about the value of healthcare collaboratives. All In: Using Healthcare Collaboratives to Save Lives and Improve Care is a compilation of insights from the authors with deep, pragmatic experience sharing how to design, run and fund successful healthcare collaboratives.
Practical topics explored in this collection include recruitment, budgeting, data and measurement, patient activation and leadership. The book highlights the benefits of healthcare collaboratives in reducing the cycle time for improvement with colleagues, and in some cases, competitors. It begins with accelerating change at scale and ending with predictions on the future of collaboratives.
“It is an honor to be invited to share the achievements of WCHQ along with the many other organizations profiled in this important compilation. We have often said that achieving the aims of better quality, lower costs, and improved health is a “gang tackle”, requiring the active engagement of all stakeholders – patients, providers, purchasers, payers – from both the public and private sectors. This book is an important reminder of that fact and serves as an inspiration to continue forward in pursuit of this shared vision for health and health care in Wisconsin” stated WCHQ’s CEO Chris Queram.
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the book captures an enormous wealth of experience from healthcare professionals around the world. The book is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.
About the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality
Founded in 2003, the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) is a voluntary, non-profit consortium of 39 organizations committed to using the public reporting of comparative measures of performance to catalyze improvements in the quality and affordability of healthcare in our state. To view our reports or to find out more about WCHQ, please visit our website www.wchq.org