The CONNECTOR- Keep up with activities of the Hudson Valley Initiative organizations and leadership. Click here.
 

Taconic IPA is the nearly 4,000-member strong physician leadership organization focused on innovative initiatives to transform medical practices and improve health care quality.Click here.

 

THINC is the not-for profit convening organization that defines and sponsors research to advance improved patient care delivery models using health information technology; structures and implements pay-for-performance criteria associated with physician practice quality initiatives; and governs the region’s secure health Information exchange network. Click here
 

MedAllies  is the health information services provider that facilitates physician practice redesign to improve efficiency and effectiveness of health care through health information technology, and operates the technical backbone for health information exchange. Click here

The Hudson Valley Initiative sprang from leaders seeking solutions to today's health care challenges. Advances in health care treatments have accelerated rapidly, but health care delivery--how patients interact with providers and receive care--is often uncoordinated, expensive and inefficient.  We want to change all that.

 

  • Health care should be patient-centered, coordinated and accessible
  • Financial models used to pay for health care should result in lower cost and increased quality
  • Health information technology should be used as a tool to improve patient care and community health

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It is our vision to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care in the Hudson Valley through improved and sustainable care delivery models. 


The Hudson Valley Initiative revolutionizes health care delivery through the work of three organizations that share a common vision. We leverage health information technology, physician practice transformation and value-based purchasing in pursuit of care delivery that is patient-centered, coordinated, accessible, high quality, and efficiently delivered through sustainable financial models.  Click here to learn more.



 

Source: Institute of Medicine, 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit: A Focus on Communities, 2004