Health Affairs September 12, 2019
Much of the focus in health policy circles and the media has been on the price transparency provisions of the recently released executive order on improving price and quality transparency. However, the executive order also calls for the establishment of a health quality roadmap that outlines a process for alignment of measures across all federal programs and care settings, adoption of common measures, and elimination of “low-value or counterproductive measures.”
The health quality roadmap will need to address several key questions including:
- What is the purpose of measurement?
- What do “high-value and productive” measures look like?
- What is a feasible pathway to evolving measurement?
In this post, we address these and other important questions and discuss the importance...