H&HN September 28, 2017
These criteria can help hospital leaders prioritize which data is most meaningful
The rising number of available quality metrics makes it difficult to set measurement priorities and keep workloads manageable. In the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System alone there are nearly 300 metrics to choose from, and new measures are continually introduced by payers, regulators and other entities to fill gaps in quality measurement.
The number of disease-specific metrics, in particular, has skyrocketed, with medical specialty societies introducing measures relevant to specialists and subspecialists. For instance, hematologist-oncologists now have metrics specific to treating blood cancer rather than all types of cancer.
Along with disease-specific metrics, specialty societies are launching qualified clinical data registries, which...
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