Health Legacy Partnership

About

The Health Legacy Partnership (HELP) was co-founded in 1998 by the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation and the federal Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) to pursue two primary goals:

• To improve healthcare decision making by developing a National Health Outcomes Database easily understood and accessible by physicians and patients.
• Educate and inform the public of the need for scientifically based data for every disease.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the nation’s lead federal agency for research on health quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety. As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) health services research arm, its work directly complements the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institute of Health. In addition to providing a major source of funding and technical assistance for health service research and research training to leading U.S. universities and institutions, AHRQ works with the public and private sectors to build the knowledge base for outcomes or what does and does not work in health care and translates this knowledge into everyday practice and policymaking.
To learn more about the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation, click here.
To learn more about AHRQ, click here.