Ensure practitioners and provider organizations are held accountable for the quality and efficiency of their performance; and; Support quality improvement activities. The data gathered by these performance standards can then be used to improve healthcare quality in a variety of ways, including: Public reporting. A healthcare institution (e.g ...

In August 2012, NQF endorsed 12 measures that assess coordination of care, an essential component in efforts to improve care quality and safety. The measures touch on care concerns such as reconciling patients’ medications, establishing advance care plans, and ensuring medical transition records are given to patients when discharged from ...

Washington, DC – A report released today by the National Quality Forum (NQF) offers five recommendations for using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to effectively facilitate, measure, and improve care communication and care coordination across multiple healthcare settings. Patients commonly interact with numerous providers in multiple ...

A new study from the National Quality Forum (NQF) presented in a recently published article in Health Affairs Scholar estimates that approximately 144,000 lives could be saved over 10 years by improving just two key areas of quality: colorectal cancer screening and blood pressure control.

WASHINGTON, DC – This month, the National Quality Forum (NQF) released a series of guides and recommendations to improve the resiliency of our nation’s healthcare system and the health outcomes of all patients receiving emergency care. These evidence-based recommendations for healthcare system readiness, trauma care, and chief complaint ...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to improve healthcare outcomes, safety, equity, and affordability. Our unique role is to bring all voices to our table to forge multistakeholder consensus on quality measurement and improvement standards and practices that achieve ...

2023年1月10日 · incentivize and improve quality. A challenge to VBP success is a lack of alignment across programs and payers. Fragmentation in the measures used in different programs across payers leads to inconsistent signals on “good performance,” preventing providers from focusing their quality improvement efforts.

2016年2月11日 · errors, and poor quality of care. With proper design, implementation, and use, HIT promises the ability to reduce medical errors and improve quality of care.1,2 When fully integrated, the goal of HIT is to facilitate substantial improvements in quality and safety. Potential benefits of HIT include: • Reduction of patient harm from medication

facilitate, measure, and improve care communication and care coordination. EHR-sourced measurement is critical to driving quality improvement . and equitable health outcomes by . enhancing care communication and care coordination. The purpose of this Recommendations Report is to provide an overview of the opportunities for using EHR data to ...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) improves the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities for performance improvement, endorsing consensus standards for measuring and reporting performance, and providing education and outreach.