The recent report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), "Crossing the Quality Chasm A New Health System for the 21st Century," called for our nation´s health care system to be more patient centered and more systems oriented. It also stressed the need for heath care delivery to be more focused on chronic care, more evidence based, and more reliant on best practices.

Health plans have long embraced this approach to health care, utilizing best practices and clinical guidelines to help physicians and other providers ensure they are providing the most appropriate treatments and care to patients.

HPA´s member health plans have endorsed clinical guidelines for Asthma, Tobacco Cessation, and Cancer Screening. For more infomation, you can select the specific guideline from the list in the left column.