In August of 2008, the Agency on Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services formally designated the Michigan Health Information Alliance as a Chartered Value Exchange (CVE).  This AHRQ supported program was initiated as part of the “Value Driven Health Care Initiative” started in 2006 by HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt to “provide information about the quality and cost of services delivered by health care providers”. 

MiHIA is one of only 25 multi-stakeholder organizations that have been selected for membership to this group.  A major benefit as a CVE member is access to AHRQ’s Learning Network: a virtual library filled with technical assistance, webinars, shared experiences and other resources on topics such as collaborative leadership and sustainability, engaging the public, quality and efficiency measurement, public reporting, provider and consumer incentives, capacity for quality improvement, and HIT/HIE.