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2017

Registration is now open for our September 18 Assembly Meeting

August 24, 2017

Screening and Intervention for Behavioral Risks and Disorders: Improving Outcomes and Decreasing Costs

Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality Receives Health Transformation Award from The Alliance

May 31, 2017

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) was honored as one of the 2017 Health Transformation Award Winners from The Alliance during its annual seminar on May 16th at the Monona Terrace.

Wisconsin patients to gain easy access to clinicians’ notes State collaboration spurs adoption of the OpenNotes initiative

April 27, 2017

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) is pleased to announce that one million more Wisconsin patients will soon have ready access to the notes their providers write in their medical records. This work represents the local implementation of OpenNotes, a national movement advocating for enhanced communication between patients and providers through shared clinicians’ notes and fully transparent medical records.

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) Joins the Compass Practice Transformation Network

April 20, 2017

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) has joined the Compass Practice Transformation Network (Compass PTN) as one of its partner organizations. The Compass PTN was founded by the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC) as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) to provide hands-on quality improvement support and peer-based learning networks to clinicians for the purpose of developing the skills and tools needed to improve care delivery and prepare for successful performance in the value-based healthcare environment.