Measuring and publicly reporting on the quality and cost of care is crucial to improving quality and lowering health care costs nationwide.
In this Reform in Action brief, lessons from Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) demonstrate how publicly reporting the performance of health care providers can inform consumers, influence payment, and drive quality improvement.
million Americans have access to info on physicians through AF4Q public reports
In many regions of the country, objective, factual information is publicly available on the quality of care provided by local doctors, hospitals, and health plans. This information, which is available online, helps doctors and hospitals see how they are doing.
You can’t improve what you don’t measure. That’s why performance measurement is an important building block to improve health care quality.
All stakeholders—patients, doctors, hospitals, employers, health plans, and policy-makers—have a vested interest in making sure that performance measurement and public reporting about the quality of health care is done right.
Melinda Karp discusses how the Boston Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) alliance is measuring patients' experience.
Anne Weiss, team director and senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talks about the benefits of public reports.
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) shares lessons and resources from its efforts to elevate the quality of health care in 16 regions around the country in a series of Reform in Action suites:
