Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), formerly New England Healthcare Institute ^[1] is a member-based, non-partisan research and policy organization.

History

NEHI was founded in 2002 as the "New England Healthcare Institute" with 21 founding members. ^[2] Today it has more than 80 member companies representing the different sectors of health care. In 2002, Wendy Everett became the organization’s president and Valerie Fleishman ^[3] was hired as its executive director. Currently, NEHI has published more than 20 publications regarding innovative ways to improve health care nationally. Its first report, Economic Contributions of the Health Care Industry to New England, ^[4] was published in 2003. In 2004, NEHI created and published two reports on innovative technologies to treat cancer and heart failure. In 2005, NEHI established a partnership with The Boston Foundation for “The Greater Boston Health Care Economy” project. ^[5] In 2008, NEHI published the first reports ever to identify areas to reduce wasteful spending and inefficiencies in health care. In January, 2011 the organization officially dropped the acronym expansion referencing a regional affiliation and opened up offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco. NEHI has since made further efforts to garner national presence with a 2014 name expansion to NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation).

Founders

NEHI is led by Chief Executive Officer Wendy Everett, ScD, and Executive Director, Valerie Fleishman. It was founded by a group of high-profile health care leaders:

• Henri Termeer, then-CEO, Genzyme
• Joseph B. Martin, MD, PhD, then Dean of Harvard Medical School
• Sam Thier, MD, then CEO, Partners HealthCare
• Fred Telling, PhD, then VP of Corporate Policy and Strategic Management, Pfizer
• Charlie Baker, CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Members

NEHI’s members include: ^[6]

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