The St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition (BHC) celebrated its 35th year at the November 3rd Annual Meeting. This community forum discussed how employers, health care providers, and others might best work together to support better health care value and affordability. 

MHI continues to work improve health care affordability in St. Louis 

The Healthcare Regional Cost Measurement and Transparency Project brings together MHI and four other regional health improvement collaboratives from around the nation to report Total Cost of Care and Relative Resource Use in each region using standardized measures developed by Health Partners of Minneapolis and endorsed by the National Quality Forum. The project began in 2013 and will continue through at least Fall 2016.

LiveWellSTL.org has spent the past year connecting St. Louisians to more than 2,500 local events and resources to help them move more, eat better and learn about their health. Its keyword searches and filters has helped more than 20,000 St. Louisians connect with health in ways that meet their interests, schedules and budgets. 

The Midwest Health Initiative (MHI) has begun sharing its data asset with St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition (BHC) members through the BHC's data roundtable, a group of about 30 leading St. Louis area employers actively working together to use claims, health assessment and other data to improve the health of their employees and the value of their investments in health benefits.