In a recent Health Affairs blog, CMS Chief Medical Officer Patrick Conway described the Core Quality Measures Collaborative’s work to assemble core measure sets in key clinical areas such as primary care, cardiology, orthopedics, oncology and OB/GYN. NQF has provided technical assistance to this work and recently hosted a meeting of the Collaborative with consumers and purchasers so that they could provide feedback on a draft set of core measure sets.

“Ensuring that public and private payers can agree on a uniform, targeted, and high-value set of measures can reduce redundant and burdensome data collection and reporting for providers,” said NQF President Christine K. Cassel, MD. “Better measure alignment also can help providers focus on key quality priority areas for improvement with the goal of accelerating efforts to improve outcomes for patients.”