The MiHIA Chartered Value Exchange and Quality service shall address the opportunities to improve the quality of care in the Central Medical Trading Area (MTA). The quality group’s role is to establish an on going regional quality agenda focused on using information to improve the quality of care for patient and their families. 

Specific Charges

• Serve as a regional hub for sharing information and fostering a medically driven dialogue around patient quality.
• Work with other MiHIA advisory teams, especially the clinical advisory group, to use national quality performance measures and health information technology standards to effectively improve people’s health in the Central Medical Trading Area.
• Facilitate the analysis of quality measurements across the six Institute Of Medicine performance domains (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered care).
• Develop or endorse various mechanisms to educate and engage consumers in the quality dialogue.
• Identify key barriers that inhibit quality and recommend strategies for working with the community to clear those barriers.
• Participate in the nation-wide Learning Network sponsored and maintained by HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
• Support and/or enable State of Michigan patient safety and quality initiatives.

Immediate Tasks

• Convene a broad set of medically empowered stakeholders to develop the MiHIA quality agenda.
• Refine the MiHIA Chartered Value Exchange application into a working structure from which MiHIA can sustain a viable quality improvement agenda.
• Validate and improve assumptions outlined in the chartered value exchange submission.
• Work with the Medical Trading Area (all 11 counties) analysis support team to develop a community wide quality assessment report relative to national benchmarks at the MTA and county level.