Mike Hindmarsh

MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, USA / President, Hindsight Healthcare Strategies

While at Group Health, Mike directed various internal clinical improvement efforts including the creation of one of the country's first electronic registries for chronic disease. Along with Ed Wagner, Mike and his colleagues created the Chronic Care Model - a system redesign strategy to improve care for chronic ill patients.

Mike directs and consults on clinical improvement efforts in chronic care, nationally and internationally, focusing on design and implementation of quality improvement strategies in ambulatory care and design of evaluative activities to assess impact of implementations. Currently, his work involves designing and developing a dissemination strategy for implementing the Chronic Care Model in the United States and Canada . Mike is working on creating awareness of the model as well as assisting health care organizations in implementing the model.