Modern Healthcare September 29, 2017
The National Quality Forum called on providers and payers this week to invest in evidence-based interventions that will enable them to better measure and assess healthcare disparities.
In a blueprint released Thursday, the NQF urged stakeholders to re-evaluate how they use existing quality measures and to invest in ways to create new measures that will help reduce health disparities and promote health equity.
“There is a lot of work still to be done on the measurement side,” said Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, president and CEO of the NQF. “We know that data sources in this area are really lacking and it’s not clear to healthcare stakeholders what the right data sources are.”
The report noted there are existing measures that providers...
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