Healthcare Innovation April 14, 2022
A panelist at CMS quality conference, IHI’s Kedar Mate, M.D., said demonstration projects could show how quality improvement initiatives can improve areas where inequities have population-level health impacts
During its annual quality meeting on April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a panel, whose members provided ideas for how to put the CMS National Quality Strategy’s enhanced focus on equity and patient safety into practice.
The strategy looks forward to a post-COVID-19 healthcare system, incorporating the learnings from the Public Health Emergency to inform both short- and long-term directions. The quality strategy consists of eight focused and interrelated goals:
• Embed Quality into the Care Journey
• Advance Health Equity
• Promote Safety to Achieve Zero Preventable Harm
• Foster...