Securitizing and trading health quality credits

One or more non-transitory tangible computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed provide a method using health quality credit exchange and electronic health record (EHR) systems for improving health care by a health care provider, the method comprising:

• accessing an EHR system, associated with the health care provider, that stores patient health care information including patient-treatment outcomes;
• determining an emission level for the health care provider;
• maintaining an account of health quality credits, the account associated with the health care provider;
• and
• retiring a first credit based on an emission level offset value associated with one or more health quality credits and a reduction amount wherein the reduction amount is determined based on the determined emission level for the health care provider.

One or more non-transitory tangible computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed provide a method using a health quality credit exchange system and an electronic health record (EHR) system for improving health care by a health care provider, the method comprising:

• accessing patient information in a datastore that is communicatively coupled to a network, wherein the EHR system stores patient health care information including patient-treatment outcomes;
• determining an emission count for the health care provider from the patient information stored in the datastore, wherein the emission count is based on a number of potentially avoidable patient outcomes;
• determining an emission count offset value associated with one or more health quality credits;
• and
• retiring the one or more health quality credits based on the emission count offset value and the emission count associated with the number of potentially avoidable patient outcomes.