Primary Care Quality Reporting Project Overview Improve quality reporting of local patient-centered primary care WHY? In every community across America, health care delivery can be improved to yield better outcomes, reduce unnecessary utilization, and advance high value services. That's why it is important for leaders from business, government, health care, and the social sector to have access to accurate, objective information on the quality of health care. WHAT can become available to provide this information? Based on nationally endorsed measures, local comparative quality of care data can be compiled and reported. Awareness and knowledge of the measures and what their values reflect about the quality of health care in our community can be increased and utilized. What VALUE can this reporting provide?
Physicians and providers have accurate information to identify areas for quality improvement
Payers can provide incentives to high-value primary care teams to accelerate transformation of care
Primary care teams improve quality of care and demonstrate increased value by measuring performance and care outcomes
Purchasers can promote utilization of high-value primary care teams via value-based insurance/benefit design
HOW can this reporting be built? Access HealthColumbus intends to coordinate the work of a multi-stakeholder collaborative to design and guide the implementation of the Primary Care Quality Reporting project. The project will be designed based on the following lessons learned from other communities: Involve physicians from the very beginning to help select measures and review their data; Develop quality reporting for system improvement and not for patient inquiry, at least initially Report on conditions or diseases most relevant to the community; Develop an established process for adding conditions and metrics to existing reports; Include stakeholders in the development of reporting, including physicians and providers, primary care team members, payers, and purchasers;
Involve information technology professionals from the start to help identify technical solutions and facilitate subsequent improvement efforts.