A Community Leader for Value-Driven Health Care is a multi-participant organization working to achieve the four cornerstones of Value-Driven Health Care:

1. Interoperable Health Information Technology
2. Measure and Publish Quality Information
3. Measure and Publish Price Information
4. Promote Quality and Efficiency of Care

A Community Leader should also embody the following characteristics or have the capacity to develop these characteristics:

• Recognized by HHS as a Community Leader
• Active engagement with critical stakeholders in the community
• Registered non-profit organization with staff or consultant expertise
• Demonstrated financial sustainability
• Facilitating the collection of provider-level measurement across the six Institute of Medicine performance domains (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered)
• Using (or promoting the use of) performance measures for:
• Public reporting of costs and consumer satisfaction
• Reward and foster better performance
• Improvement by providers
• User of inter-operable health information technologies
• Fostering collaboration across multiple stakeholders and serve as a hub for sharing information and dialogue;
• Supporting knowledge transfer and sharing lessons learned
• Conducting ongoing evaluation and improvement of efforts.
• Use national provider performance measures effectively.

Recognition as a Community Leader also signifies that, if it so chooses, the organization is working toward eligibility as a Value Exchange. A Value Exchange is a multi-stakeholder organization that has taken clear action in its community to convene community purchasers, health plans, providers, and consumers to advance the four cornerstones of Value-Driven Health Care. Chartered Value Exchanges will be identified and selected by HHS. For more information about the Value-Driven Health Care Initiative visit http://www.hhs.gov/transparency/index.html