AHRQ Conference on Health Care Data Collection and Reporting

Health care organizations are faced with increasingly disparate data collection and reporting requirements from a wide variety of public and private organizations. The current array of unresolved data collection issues, including many variations in measures across the various quality reporting and performance measurement systems, results in duplications of effort, increased expense, and lost opportunities. Ultimately, the cost will be uneven monitoring of quality in health care. A conference of 50 leaders from public and private health care organizations convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) discussed the opportunities for creating and adopting within 5 years a core set of broadly acceptable standards and rules for health care data collection, aggregation, and reporting of performance data. This process would likely be furthered by a formalized public-private partnership to establish and govern in a transparent manner a core set of national standards and rules for health care performance data collection, aggregation, and reporting.

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