About this blog – purpose
Health Quality Partners (HQP) is a not-for-profit health care quality research and development organization dedicated to improving population health outcomes through health system redesign and advanced care coordination.
Achieving this aim will require:
1. Change in cultural norms and prevailing mental models
2. Realignment of resources and rewards
3. Research into what really works
4. Collective application of insights from many fields; quality improvement, public health, reliability engineering, diffusion of innovation, politics, sociology (including social networking), wellness, nursing, social work, and medicine.
5. Constancy of purpose
This blog will begin to explore the role of each of these in the transformation process that lies ahead. Insights and comments from others in the United States and from around the world who are working on these same issues areas are deeply appreciated and welcomed.
