The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) was established by Executive Order D 005 08 signed by Governor Ritter on February 13, 2008, as part of the "Building Blocks to Health Care Reform" plan.

The center was created to establish an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder entity to identify and pursue strategies for quality improvement and cost containment.  evaluate quality improvement strategies to ensure a better value for the health care Coloradans receive. Led by Joan Henneberry, executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the center will bring consumers, businesses, health care providers, insurance companies and state agencies together to develop long-term strategies to identify, implement and

During the planning process, five work groups were created for the purpose of developing the priorities, goals and strategies for CIVHC. The work groups are:

Aligning Benefits and Finances

Consumer Engagement

Data Sharing for Performance Measurement

End of Life Care

Improving Delivery Systems

The Data Sharing for Performance Measurement work group is charged with inventorying and developing a set of metrics that can be applied to informing and measuring the work of CIVHC. As part of this task, CHI has developed an initial "work-in-progress" data inventory. This Excel spreadsheet is intended to illustrate which databases are currently available and to capture some of the basic descriptions of what the databases offer. It is a starting point for the data work group.

CIVHC Data Sharing for Performance Measurement Database Inventory (191 KB xls)

As previously mentioned this is an organic document that is constantly being updated. If you have any questions, comments and/or other input regarding the document, please contact:

Phyllis Albritton at palbritton@pcubedpartners.com