Collaborating for Innovative Care (CIC) Learning Collaborative

Categories: Diabetes Prevention,Promote Health and Wellness

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa’s Collaborating for Innovative Care (CIC) Learning Collaborative, a series of learning sessions and personalized resources for primary care practices in the Wellmark network, aims to help care teams improve the quality of diabetes care through process improvement and disease management techniques.  The Learning Collaborative stresses teamwork and electronic data as ways to improve provider performance.  Participants are coached on the Wagner Chronic Care model, which is based on evidence-based guidelines and new concepts in clinical office practice.  Participants also utilize a data collection tool that allows them to access clinical information and administrative claims data, identify improvement opportunities in their practice and monitor progress.

The CIC Learning Collaborative is just one of the initiatives introduced by Wellmark in the past several years under the Collaboration on Quality program.  This suite of initiatives is focused on providing information, incentives and support to Wellmark’s participating clinicians and facilities so that they can improve their quality of care.