Partnerships | Massachusetts Health Policy Commission

The HPC regularly seeks opportunities to partner with state agencies and other stakeholders to advance shared goals for health care transformation and innovation. By providing funds, expertise, and/or staff resources, the HPC can contribute broadly to efforts to promote a more transparent, accountable, and equitable health care system. Examples of past and current partnerships include:

Quality Measure Alignment Taskforce

An ongoing collaboration among the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), the Health Policy Commission (HPC), and the Center for Health Information Analysis (CHIA) with the goals of: 1) building consensus on an aligned measure set for voluntary adoption by private and public payers and by providers in global budget-based risk contracts; 2) identifying strategic priority areas for measure development where measure gaps exist, and 3) advising on the measurement and reporting of health and health care inequities and accountability for reducing such inequities. The Taskforce’s membership includes representatives from provider organizations, commercial and Medicaid managed care health plans, academic experts, consumer advocates, and state agencies.

Read more on the EOHHS Quality Measure Alignment Taskforce.

Partnerships at the Intersection of Maternal Health and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

With funds secured by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) via a SAMSHA State Opioid Response (SOR) grant, the HPC and the DPH have collaborated with the Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network (PNQIN) of Massachusetts to support projects to provide treatment and support to families and infants affected by OUD. Funds have supported technical assistance and capacity building efforts, including statewide summits, trainings to promote interventions to improve non-pharmacologic care of infants at risk of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), and the development of resources and reports among other activities. Recent work has addressed the discrimination faced by people of color with substance use disorder in the perinatal period.

Promoting Digital Health to Complement Care Delivery Transformation Efforts

The HPC partnered with MassChallenge HealthTech (MCHT), the Commonwealth’s official digital health hub, with the goals of promoting community-based providers’ access to digital health solutions and identifying and supporting digital health startups addressing high-priority health care transformation areas identified by the HPC. The HPC and MCHT also collaborated on launching and co-hosting the first three sessions of the Health Equity Event Series.