Getting on the Same Page for Quality Health Care

Measuring the cost of care is a bit simpler than defining metrics that measure quality. The latter is very complex, requiring coordination by many stakeholders and lots of data. In Dr. Stephen Ondra’s latest Huffington Post column, Getting on the Same Page for Quality Health Care, he talks about the Core Quality Measures Collaborative. This unprecedented effort brings together major provider organizations, employers and consumers, and a group of health care payers, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that collectively provide coverage for over 70 percent of insured Americans.

Dr. Ondra is senior vice president and enterprise chief medical officer of our health insurance Plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. He said, “The effort strikes at the heart of a key question in health care: how do we measure where we are, where we wish to go and how well we are progressing towards achieving higher quality while also managing costs?”

Learn about the key goals of this collaborative in Dr. Ondra’s latest article. Watch for future HuffPost articles from Dr. Ondra in this newsletter, and follow him on Twitter at @StephenOndra where he tweets about his work and the future of health care.