Welcome to the HPCI Website!
The Health Policy Corporation of Iowa develops and supports initiatives which relate to cost containment, quality and access of health services in Iowa by:
- Assisting all purchasers and other users in obtaining better value;
- Conducting meaningful research, data collection, analysis and education;
- Providing leadership in setting community health care goals.
Individual employers, other purchasers and consumers use many strategies for addressing health care costs on their own. HPCI adds value by helping focus attention and mobilize actions that are best done on a collective or coalition basis involving numerous employer and other purchasers across Iowa markets. HPCI collaborates with health care professionals and other Iowa stakeholders.
HPCI Efforts Focus on the Following:
- LEAN Enterprise; LEAN health care transformation; TPS and LEAN/Six Sigma;
- Transparency of health care performance; public reporting of health care provider cost, quality, delivery, patient safety and outcomes;
- Bridging health care and its customers (customer-focus, linkages and benchmarks);
- Applying quality/cost/delivery/safety (QCDS) metrics and other LEAN tools;
- Consumerism in health care;
- Purchasing on the value stream;
- Leverage national resources and solutions, i.e. Business Roundtable founded Leapfrog Group, the National Quality Forum and the Consumer Purchaser Disclosure Project.