Innovative local leadership. Big-picture perspective.

The Hudson Valley Initiative is ideas for improved health care quality that build on a foundation of electronic health record (EHR) implementation and adoption and health information exchange (HIE) to enable revolutionary health care transformation.

Since 2007, we've seen more than 700 physicians implement EHRs to transform their medical practices. We've assisted some 305 primary care providers to become recognized by the National Committee on Quality Assurance as Level 3 patient centered medical homes--one of the highest concentrations of NCQA medical homes in the nation. We are building on an accountable finance model, and have partnered with six health plans in a value-based purchasing program to reward physician practices for reaching quality and care coordination benchmarks. And we are one of the seven pilot communities to launch the Office of the National Coordinator's Direct Project health information exchange initiative.

The Hudson Valley Initiative partners with Weill Cornell Medical College as an independent evaluator of our efforts.  Our goal is to initiate quality efforts, support them with the resources providers need, and then test the outcomes--improved care delivery, improved physician and patient satisfaction, and lower costs.

More about Hudson Valley Initiative research and evaluation.
More about the Direct Project.

Putting ideas into action.