The Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) is a public-private partnership convened by the National Quality Forum (NQF). MAP is responsible for providing input to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on selecting performance measures for public reporting and performance-based payment programs, and for other purposes as stated at its website. As performance measurement and transparency of outcomes grow in…
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Although I believe you can never have “enough quality,” health systems that report outcomes to various agencies have much duplication and extreme amounts of manual abstraction of records. I was fortunate to have my eyes opened on a special project I worked on several years ago in Ohio to help a health system get their arms around data within their…
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Consider Ned, the first human who invented the wheel (more like a log that Ned rolled things over), bringing his new invention into the camp and explaining to the clan of Cro-Magnons gathered how revolutionary this technology was and how it was about to change life on the planet forever. While some looked bewildered and asked “What’s a planet?” other…
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