Vision, Mission, Roles and Guiding Principles

Innovation through Collaboration

Vision

Health care that promotes quality improvement, accountability, and affordability, for the benefit of all California consumers.

Mission

To create breakthrough improvements in health care services for Californians through collaboration among key stakeholders.

Roles

Accountability

IHA promotes accountability and transparency through health care standards, measurement, rewards, and providing information to third parties for public reporting.

Convener

IHA leverages its distinctive strength, the ability to bring together leaders from key sectors of health care in California as a neutral convener, to promote innovation through both individual and collaborative efforts.

Innovator

IHA provides a forum for its members to innovate, promote, and test new ideas.

Knowledge Sharing

IHA supports a visible, ongoing effort to promote health care improvement by educating and informing the general public, policy makers, other associations, and organizations through conferences, roundtable forums, reports, media, and other methods.

Policy Influence

IHA seeks to influence policy issues that support its mission through information, education, public positions, and collaboration by key stakeholders.

Project Incubator

IHA serves as a catalyst by initiating, coordinating, and managing projects that advance solutions for delivery system challenges.

Guiding Principles

In organizing and carrying out its work, IHA:

• Operates a shared governance model based upon trust, and open dialogue;

• Seeks to remain a limited-membership policy board, but with representation from a broad cross-section of the health care industry;

• Solicits senior decision-maker participation from its member organizations;

• Considers academic, business/purchaser, and consumer perspectives in its discussions, including but not limited to, board representation;

• Promotes ideas, solutions, and points of view to policymakers, but does not lobby on specific pieces of legislation;

• Promotes incentives to align the interests of various health care stakeholders;

• Seeks to develop consensus, but believes open, active dialog and debate on important issues is productive, even if a consensus cannot be reached.