The AQA alliance and the Hospital Quality Alliance have formed a new national Quality Alliance Steering Committee to give consumers helpful healthcare information through the Internet and expand the scope, speed, and adoption of the work of AQA and HQA. The AQA is an alliance of physician organizations, consumers, employers, and health plan representatives that makes available quality information about physician care; the HQA is a coalition of hospitals, nurses, physician organizations, accrediting agencies, government, consumers, and businesses that shares quality information about key aspects of hospital care.
The steering committee, which will work closely with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will coordinate and expand several ongoing pilot projects designed to combine public and private information to measure and report on performance, such as AQA’s project compiling data on the quality of physician performance across care settings. The committee will also assist the two organizations in developing a more uniform approach to measuring and reporting hospital and physician performance. Read the press release.
