About - EPIC

EPIC's Mission

The Employer Provider Interface Council (EPIC) is a sister organization of the Hospital Quality Foundation (HQF). The mission of EPIC is to provide insight, information, and guidance to employer and provider decision-makers. The Employer-Provider Interface Council seeks to create an environment that allows key stakeholders to focus on thought, develop key metrics, and design care-management strategies that affect change within populations of patients.

EPIC's Value

Through the employer-provider interaction, EPIC convenes or facilitates informed decisions on how best to structure care for the benefit of their shared population. This allows for better, more effective patient care, improved financial performance, and an improved overall delivery process.

EPIC's Actions

By establishing a communicative partnership between employers and healthcare providers, EPIC:

helps employers and providers take a more active role in managing their shared healthcare investments

provider employers and providers with access to highly qualified individuals with experience and expertise in healthcare quality and medicine.

creates resources that both payers and providers need to be able to understand and critically assess the applicability of new treatment modalities to their own situation in order to make informed medical policy decisions.

is the only national group that is a collaborative and integrated group of employers and providers who work with all organizations in all areas:

Employers as a group, Business Groups or Coalitions
Clinical societies or associations
Advocacy groups
Healthcare administration and management groups
Health insurance and legal groups

Convenes the WellSpent Forum, Linking Business and Healthcare:

The goal of WellSpent is to educate, influence and engage key stakeholders on the importance of healthcare for new or existing economic development efforts to improve or increase opportunities for business and the community as a whole.