The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released the first-ever inventory of quality measures that are used for reporting, payment, or quality improvement by its agencies and operating divisions. The HHS measure inventory, which is available on the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™, a web site of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is designed to advance collaboration within the quality measurement community and to synchronize measurement.
The measures currently can be sorted by agency or operating division and can be downloaded in their entirety. In the next several months, the inventory will be enhanced so the measure can be sorted by condition, setting, or measure domain.
"The release of this inventory is an important step in providing healthcare providers, clinicians, patients, policymakers and others with reliable, comprehensive information on the department's efforts to measure and improve health care quality," said AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, M.D. "I hope this is the start of a longer term effort for the department to develop further an overarching strategy that can be aligned with public and private efforts to accelerate improvements in quality and value for all Americans."
