Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), formerly New England Healthcare Institute, was an American member-based, non-partisan research and policy organization based in Boston. It was founded in 2002 and voluntarily dissolved in 2024.
History NEHI was founded in 2002 as the New England Healthcare Institute with 21 founding members.Building on a System of Outreach, Collaboration by Joshua Boger, Boston Globe May 7, 2007, www.nehi.net In 2002, Wendy Everett became the organization’s president and Valerie Fleishman was hired as its executive director. NEHI 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, was published in 2003. In 2004, NEHI created and published two reports on technologies intended to treat cancer and heart failure. In 2005, NEHI began collaborating with The Boston Foundation on the Greater Boston Health Care Economy project. In 2008, NEHI published reports addressing how to reduce wasteful spending and inefficiencies in health care. In January 2011, NEHI opened up offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco. In 2014, NEHI was renamed Network for Excellence in Health Innovation. NEHI's board of directors voted to dissolve the organization, effective December 13, 2024. At the time of its dissolution, it was headquartered in Boston.
Founders NEHI was founded by the following individuals: 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 As of April 2021, NEHI’s members included:
ABIOMED, Inc. AdvaMed Advanced ICU Care Alkermes, Inc. Alkeus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. American Associate of Colleges of Pharmacy American Cancer Society - New England American Diabetes Association American Osteopathic Association Anthurium Solutions, Inc. APCO Worldwide Arthritis Foundation, New England Region Association of American Medical Colleges AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Best Doctors Biotechnology Industry Organization Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Boston Healthcare Associates Bristol-Myers Squibb California Healthcare Institute Caregiver Action Network Center for Applied Research COPD Foundation CVS Caremark DePuy Mitek, Inc. Dovetail Health Eliza Corporation EMC Corporation EMD Serono, Inc. Endo Pharmaceuticals Ernst & Young, LLP Fallon Community Health Plan Foley Hoag, LLP GlaxoSmithKline The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Harvard Pilgrim Health Care The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council Healthcare Institute of New Jersey Hospital Corporation of America Health Dialog Services Corporation Joslin Diabetes Center Kaiser Permanente King & Spalding, LLP Lockheed Martin Corporation Malley & Franey Financial Group, Inc. Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Massachusetts Medical Society Massachusetts Technology Collaborative McKinsey & Company Merck & Co., Inc. MWV Healthcare National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation National Community Pharmacists Association National Consumers League National Family Caregivers Association National Pharmaceutical Council Network Health New England Council Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Novo Nordisk, Inc. Onyx Pharmaceuticals Organogenesis Inc. Oxford Bioscience Partners PAREXEL International, Inc. Partners HealthCare System Philips Healthcare PhRMA PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Project HOPE Sanofi Scott & White Healthcare Silverlink Communications, Inc. Steward Health Care System, LLC Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Tufts Health Plan Tufts University School of Medicine UCLA Health System UK Trade & Investment University of Massachusetts Medical School URAC Verisk Health
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