Most performance measurement efforts operate in isolation from one another, rarely provide a consistent picture of overall quality, and represent a significant cost to the healthcare industry, according to a call for action released March 6 by the Joint Commission.
The Joint Commission’s newest public policy white paper, Health Care at the Crossroads: Development of a National Performance Measurement Data Strategy, proposes a framework for creating a data infrastructure to support performance measurement activities that improve the quality of U.S. health care. The detailed solutions, proposed by a Joint Commission roundtable, focus on creating a data infrastructure that addresses consumer expectations for data privacy, supporting a data highway that allows for data sharing and linkages, and operating under an agreed-upon set of rules and governance structure. Download the report.
