Better Information. Better Decisions. Better Health Care.

Driven by a commitment to higher quality, more affordable and patient-centered health care, we are dedicated to achieving a high-value health care system. We see health care quality measurement – scientific, consensus-based tools that allow consumers, employers, hospitals, physicians and health care systems to determine the relative quality and value of health care – as an essential foundation to driving improvements in quality and cost, as well as better decisions and payment incentives. Measures and measurement are the basic building blocks of better care and smarter payment. Without a venue to discuss, vet, evaluate and achieve consensus on quality measures, our health care system would revert to a time when every insurance company, every large employer and every provider group developed and used its own measures. Consumers and purchasers would be left without a way to make meaningful comparisons and choices. We would not know how to evaluate treatments and outcomes, assess quality in hospitals or identify the best providers for various tests, evaluations and procedures.