Our Partners
ICIC has been involved in many efforts to improve chronic care since first appearing in 1998 as a national program office of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Longstanding collaborator The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) helped us launch our earliest quality improvement initiatives, the three Chronic Illness Care Breakthrough Series. We have supported IHI's IMPACT community innovation project, Building a Reliable System for All Patients with Chronic Conditions, as well as continued support of their office redesign work. ICIC's contribution to these efforts involves dissemination of the Chronic Care Model as the mechanism for health care change, as well as creating disease-specific evidence-based chronic care content.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Primary Health Care was an early participant in ICIC's national Chronic Care Collaboratives. Since then, the Bureau has adopted the Chronic Care Model and embarked upon its own Health Disparities Collaboratives. We continue to work closely with Bureau on their important efforts to reduce the disparities in health care for the poor.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services has identified the Chronic Care Model as a key component of work that its quality improvement organizations (QIOs) must address. ICIC is working with various QIOs around the country on collaboratives as well as providing technical expertise to programs such as Doctor's Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT).
ICIC is working with both The National Committee on Quality Assurance and The Joint Commission to develop indicators for assessing health care organizations' chronic illness care activities.
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality seeks to make dramatic improvements in the quality of care for children and adolescents. NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what could be in health care for all children.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Primary Health Care was an early participant in ICIC's national Chronic Care Collaboratives. Since then, the Bureau has adopted the Chronic Care Model and embarked upon its own Health Disparities Collaboratives. We continue to work closely with Bureau on their important efforts to reduce the disparities in health care for the poor.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services has identified the Chronic Care Model as a key component of work that its quality improvement organizations (QIOs) must address. ICIC is working with various QIOs around the country on collaboratives as well as providing technical expertise to programs such as Doctor's Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT).
ICIC is working with both The National Committee on Quality Assurance and The Joint Commission to develop indicators for assessing health care organizations' chronic illness care activities.
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality seeks to make dramatic improvements in the quality of care for children and adolescents. NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what could be in health care for all children.
In 2006, ICIC began assisting regional collaborators in implementation of the Regional Improvement Framework. Partners in this work include:
- New York State Department of Health Asthma Initiative
- Iowa Academy of Family Practice Chronic Disease Collaboratives
- New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Chronic Disease Collaboratives (for the fourteen public hospitals serving one million New York city residents)
- Missouri Health Foundation's Self-Management Support Funding Initiative
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