Minnesota Health Institutes and
Research Organizations

The Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research

The Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, a VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence, is an interdisciplinary community of professionals conducting methodologically rigorous research intended primarily to improve the health care of veterans.

Health Partners Research Foundation

The HealthPartners Research Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation within the HealthPartners family of health care organizations and is located in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Minnesota) metropolitan area. HealthPartners Research Foundation conducts clinical, health services and basic science research that improves the health of HealthPartners members and the community. All research results are intended for the public domain.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)

The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a collaboration of health care organizations, is an objective voice dedicated to championing health care quality and to helping its members identify and accelerate the implementation of best clinical practices for their patients. An independent, non-profit organization, ICSI provides health care quality improvement services to 17 medical groups affiliated with HealthPartners, a Minnesota-based HMO serving more than 800,000 members. The medical groups range in size from 14 practitioners in Shoreview, Minnesota to more than 1,000 physicians and medical scientists at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The combined medical groups represent nearly 2,500 physicians.

Minnesota Cancer Alliance

The Minnesota Cancer Alliance is a coalition of health care organizations, community-based groups and volunteers that evolved from collaborative efforts to create /Cancer Plan Minnesota/. Founded in 2005, the Alliance was formed to support and implement the plan.

Minnesota Community Measurement

MN Community Measurement is Minnesota's source for information on health care quality. Our web site offers quality comparisons among provider groups and clinics. As a consumer, you can use this information to make more informed choices and discuss the results with your doctor. Provider groups and clinics across the state are also using these results to improve the care they deliver.

Minnesota Council of Health Plans

The Minnesota Council of Health Plans is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to strengthening Minnesota's position as the nation's healthiest state.

Minnesota e-Health Initiative

The Minnesota e-Health Initiative is a public-private collaborative effort to improve healthcare quality, increase patient safety, reduce healthcare costs and enable individuals and communities to make the best possible health decisions by accelerating the adoption and use of health information technology.

Park Nicollet Institute

Park Nicollet Institute collaboratively engages in innovation, research, and education to improve the quality of health and health care and to inform public and private decisions on health, health care, and access to that knowledge and care. Among their projects, researchers at the Health Research Institute at the Park Nicollet Institute have been are conducting research on the impact of health based risk-adjustment. Their web site is an excellent launch point for risk adjustment resources.

Stratis Health

Stratis Health's mission is to improve health services by gathering, analyzing, and reporting data on the performance of health services and applying itsfindings to help inform decision making. Stratis Health's major contract is as Minnesota's Medicare Peer Review Organization (PRO). Today, Stratis Health has a variety of efforts underway focusing on process and outcomes measurement.


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