A2:    Information interventions to improve quality and control cost in health care

Janet M Corrigan PhD MBA is Director, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies (USA) is director of the Board on Health Care Services at the Institute of Medicine. The Board on Health Care Services is the division of the Institute of Medicine that is responsible for projects relating to health care quality, benefits coverage, organization, delivery and financing. Dr. Corrigan is also the Director of IOM’s Quality of Health Care in America Project, a three-year initiative designed to provide leadership, a strategic direction and analytic tools that will contribute to a threshold improvement in quality over the next decade. The Quality of Health Care in America Project released its first report; To Err is Human, in November 1999.

Prior to joining the Institute of Medicine, she was the executive director of the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, a one-year commission responsible for producing the Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities and a comprehensive report on the quality of health care. She also served as principal researcher for the Center for Studying Health System Change established by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1995 to assess the impact of health system change at the community-level. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Corrigan was vice president for planning and development with the National Committee for Quality Assurance, where she was responsible for the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS 2.0 and 2.5), the National Report Card Pilot Project, and state and community quality measurement projects.

She received her doctorate in health services organization and policy and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan. She also has graduate degrees in business administration and in community health from the University of Rochester.