In December 2017, NQF announced five winning entries for its annual Innovation Challenge. The contest challenged NQF members and others in the measure development community to submit innovative and agile approaches to incorporating one or more Principles for Making Health Care Measurement Patient-Centered in performance measurement.
Innovation Challenge winners shared their proposals through NQF’s 2018 Learning Collaborative Webinar Series focused on patient-centered measurement. Learn more about the webinars below.
Jan 23, 2018 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET
On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET, NQF hosted a webinar to learn about pioneering exemplars of patient-centered measurement in oncology.
Colleen A. McHorney, PhD, Evidera and Dayo Jagun, MBBS, MPH, Genentech discussed ongoing work where patients and caregivers have a central role in conceptualizing oncology measures that address patients' concerns, values and preferences.
Moderated by Laura Batz Townsend, BA, President & Co-Founder, Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation
Agenda (PDF) | Presentation Slides (PDF)
Feb 8, 2018 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET
On Thursday, February 8, 2018, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET, NQF hosted a webinar to learn about novel approaches to measuring maternal health and patient experience. Saraswathi Vedam, RM, FACNM, SciD, Birth Place Lab, University of British Columbia discussed the development and validation of patient-designed measures of autonomy and respect, as well as patient-reported tools to capture mistreatment in maternity care. Katharina Kovacs Burns, MSc, MHSA, PhD, Alberta Health Services shared a strategy to engage patient and family advisors in gathering and analyzing patient experience data in real-time.
Moderated by David Andrews, Patient Advisor
Agenda (PDF) | Presentation Slides (PDF)
Mar 1, 2018 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET
On Thursday, March 1, 2018, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET, NQF hosted a webinar to learn about innovative cancer screening measures and approaches to measuring patient-centeredness in measurement.
Sameer Saini, MD, MS, VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research and University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation discussed measures of colorectal cancer screening that incorporate individual screening benefit and patient preferences. Matthew Pickering, PharmD, RPh, Pharmacy Quality Alliance and Eleanor Perfetto, PhD, MS, National Health Council shared a proposed rubric to assess the patient-centeredness of measure development and implementation.
Moderated by Hala Durrah, MTA, Patient Family Engagement Consultant, Speaker & Advocate
Agenda (PDF) | Presentation Slides (PDF)
August 16, 2018 | 1:00-2:00pm ET
On Thursday, August 16, 2018, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, NQF hosted a webinar to learn about what’s needed to take patient-centered measurement to the next level.
Jennifer Hale, MSN, Compassus, Stephen Hoy, PFCCpartners, Eddie Machado, MD, MBA, IPRO, David Lansky, PhD, Pacific Business Group on Health, and Dave White, NCQA, explored the roles of diverse stakeholders in advancing patient-centered measurement, examined challenges to ensuring representativeness in performance measurement, and discussed opportunities to enhance patient-provider relationships through patient-centered measurement.
Moderated by Tracy Spinks, BBA, Senior Director of Quality Innovation, National Quality Forum
Agenda (PDF) | Presentation Slides (PDF)
Follow NQF on Twitter and use hashtag #ptvoice to share insights during these webinars.
Please contact incubator@qualityforum.org with any questions about the NQF Measure Incubator™ Innovation Challenge or Learning Collaborative webinar series.
