The day is here! We’re officially launching the new company created by the merger between Qualis Health and HealthInsight. We’re excited. And as you learn more, we think you will be, too!

Both Qualis Health and HealthInsight brought many assets to the merger:

• Dedicated staff with technical, data analysis and clinical expertise
   
• Longtime experience delivering quality improvement and care management programs for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicaid agencies, and other clients
   
• An ability to convene different stakeholders across the health care system to work on initiatives
   
• And most importantly, a shared commitment to the goal of making the health care system work better for everyone

These shared assets, along with separate areas of expertise and emphasis, has created a truly synergistic union that makes the new organization stronger than its parts. This new entity has, at its heart, a vision to reimagine the health care system, collaboratively with its partners. To collectively create a system where outcomes improve, costs go down and disparities are eliminated, on an ongoing basis.

So what is the new company, created from all this goodness? It’s Comagine Health. We named the new company to reflect what’s at the heart of what we do every day: collectively reimagine the future of the health care system.

We love our new name and logo, and hope you do, too. But more importantly, we hope you’ll continue to partner with us on our vision to improve health and health care, to tackle the hardest problems in health care, and to address all aspects of the health care system, from the point of care on up.

This announcement is just the first of many you’ll be seeing from us as we continue to manifest our shared vision. Thank you for being part of our team. And we look forward to reimagining health care, together.

If you’d like to watch a short video we made about the new company, click here or visit comagine.org.

About the Author

Marc Bennett is president and chief executive officer of Comagine Health, which was formed following the merger of Qualis Health and HealthInsight in 2018. See Marc's full bio.

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