Behavioral Health Business November 5, 2024
Morgan Gonzales

The National Quality Forum (NQF) has partnered with a coalition of health plans and the national digital therapy enablement platform Headway to create a new assessment tool that standardizes how behavioral health clinicians measure the progress of care.

The behavioral health industry, across specialties, has struggled with a lack of a standardized data measurement set. The NQF is leading a new initiative to change this and lay the groundwork for value-based care arrangements while improving patient care without increasing clinician workload.

The initiative, dubbed Aligned Innovation, aims to create an omnibus tool to measure depression and anxiety symptoms and function and develop a patient-reported outcome performance measure (PROPM) that measures symptom changes over time.

Digital behavioral health company Headway is...

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