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Atlanta-Chicago Health and Work Performance (ACHP) Initiative | ||||||||
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The ACHP Initiative grew out of a simple observation: that lack of information
about the real value of health services hampers the efficiency of employer
health care purchasing. Purchasers have ways to evaluate the quality of
other inputs they purchase. They have ways to evaluate the cost-savings
created by innovations in production technology and the effects of direct-to-consumer
ad campaigns, but they generally lack comparable ways to evaluate the effects
of investments in employee health care or the dollars spent on health benefits
programs. The Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) set
out to change this situation in order to increase the rationality of employer-sponsored
health care purchasing by collaborating with leading academic researchers
to develop a model system of health and productivity management in two leading
health care markets. Atlanta and Chicago were selected as the demonstration
sites. Funding for the initiative has been provided by the federal government
through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
ACHP Documents: For more information on web-based versions contact ronkadm@hcp.med.harvard.edu. |
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