The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) Data Initiative (DI) is a not-for-profit Education and Research Foundation established in 1997 to answer the growing need in the health care community for high quality, standardized data which could be used to measure value, facilitate evaluation of health care quality and promote quality improvements.

The purpose of the DFWHC, as a member driven service organization, is to promote responsibility to the patient and communities we serve.  The services provided by the DI encompass many different layers including data collection and analysis, education on quality measurement and practice improvement, and general consultation.