A National Web Conference on the Role of HIE in Helping Providers Assess Their Performance on the AQA Starter Set
Overall Purpose:
In a major step toward improving the quality of the U.S. health care system, a broad-based coalition of health care agencies and organizations--the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA)--selected a "starter set" of 26 clinical performance measures for the ambulatory care setting. The starter set of measures is intended to provide clinicians, consumers, and purchasers with a set of quality indicators that may be used for quality improvement, public reporting, and pay-for-performance programs.
Micky Tripathi, President & Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), and Thomas M. Fritz, Chief Executive Officer for Inland Northwest Health Services, will discuss the experiences of their HIE organizations in implementing the AQA Starter Set and how these measures impact HIE. Both of these organizations represent areas of the country where there is strong physician leadership, and where there is a rich history of collaboration on quality and data initiatives among multiple health plans and physician groups. By providing meaningful information to physicians through use of these measures, they will show how this information will allow providers to make informed, value-based health care decisions that meet their needs and implement corrective action to further improve delivery of care.