While much of the attention this week from the Trump administration's executive order on transparency focused on prices, there's also a section of it that calls for alignment of quality measures ...

The Measure Applications Partnership has released two draft strategies for alignment of quality measures. MAP is spearheaded by the National Quality Forum and is charged with making recommendations on ...

The American Hospital Association has written a letter to the National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership urging better alignment of quality measurement reporting and payment efforts, ...

In response to a request for comment issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed Quality Strategy, the American Hospital Association is calling for more significant ...

Quality measures must be standardized and aligned across public and private "accountability programs," said Janet Corrigan, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, in a well-attended ...

Chip Kahn on Better Alignment of Quality Measures Measurement is essential to improving care and having the equivalent measurements across the field will allow clinicians and providers to be held ...

Members of the group agree on a number of concerns, including the need to monitor the use and efficacy of the measures. "We are going to continue to track how these measures are adopted and where ...