Category: Quality Measurement

Tools for Addressing Inequality

I saw an interesting tweet recently that got me thinking about the paradox that sometimes exists in our most highly-tuned healthcare interventions: sometimes the very tools deployed to help people can end up making things worse. Let me say that I admire anyone who attempts to alleviate healthcare problems and the upstream negative social determinants […]

Payment Models and Metrics

Healthcare quality measures are a study in contrasts. Their overall purpose is straightforward enough: quality measures incentivize physicians and other healthcare workers to provide cost-effective care that ideally leads to better patient outcomes. But the sheer number of them can seem overwhelming. What’s more, figuring out the interplay between these measures and healthcare payment models […]

Quality Measure Development

I’ve been looking into how to develop Patient-Reported Outcomes-based Performance Measures (PRO-PMs) lately, and I figured I’d list some helpful resources here. Quality metrics are important in medicine, in that they incentivize physicians to accomplish the IHI Triple Aim: Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction); Improving the health of populations; and […]