The Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC) was created following the very successful National Policy Dialogue to Advance Integrated Health Care: Finding Common Ground (NPD). The NPD, held at Georgetown University Medical School, October 31–November 3, 2001, was a groundbreaking effort to stimulate communication and focus action among leaders in the nation's healthcare community about the future of integrated health care. NPD participants represented over 50 stakeholder organizations with an interest in or commitment to the advancement of integrated health care. They reviewed the status of existing public and private initiatives, and debated what an integrated healthcare system would look like, how to achieve it through a defined national policy framework, and how to evaluate it.
Those present at the NPD included numerous individuals who have served or are serving in national policy positions, including formal and informal roles advising diverse federal agencies, members of Congress from both parties, and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. IHPC was created at the conclusion of the NPD, to ensure that the work identified by the NPD would be carried out. We were incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 2003.