Webinar: How did we get thousands of quality measures? Charting a simpler future

Providers are overburdened by the sheer number of quality measures. There are thousands of measures in the healthcare industry, many of which are duplicative. 

Healthcare’s decades-long effort to increase the scope and depth of quality measures has happened in silos through the years, and that growth has been compounded by the disparate ways in which we approach care. All of this has added up to an absolutely unmanageable requirement for providers. The problem is fixable, but it needs to be a coordinated effort across the industry. 

During this webinar, a panel of experts will discuss why a digital quality measure renaissance is needed to reduce provider burden, improve the validity of performance measurement and, in turn, improve quality of care. They’ll also explain why the time is now to begin this work and how to get started.  

Join this webinar to learn: 

• How to simplify the most frequently used performance measures
• Why digitization and standardization of quality measures must be accelerated
• How to reduce provider burden while improving performance measurement
   

Dr. Karen Dorsey Sheares 
Director of Quality Measurement Programs 
Yale New Haven Hospital, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)

Karen Dorsey Sheares, MD, PhD, is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University and a clinical researcher at the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). Dr. Dorsey earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed training in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and matriculated to the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University. She subsequently earned a doctorate in Investigative Medicine from Yale University. Dr. Dorsey conducted research focused on the relationship between obesity and physical activity in children before joining CORE in 2012. She is currently Director of Quality Measurement Programs and Director of Systems and People Development at CORE. She is an expert of outcome measure methodology, and the development and testing of electronic clinical quality outcome measures.

Dr. Helen Burstin
Chief Executive Officer
Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, MACP, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), a coalition of 45 specialty societies representing more than 800,000 physicians. Representing every specialty, from primary care to surgery, CMSS works to catalyze improvement across specialties through convening, collaborating, speaking with one voice, and acting together. Dr. Burstin formerly served as the Chief Scientific Officer of the National Quality Forum (NQF). Prior to joining NQF, Dr. Burstin was the Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Burstin was Director of Quality Measurement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Burstin is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters on quality, safety, equity, and measurement. She currently serves on the boards of AcademyHealth and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. She is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her recent awards include the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Voluntary Attending Award from the George Washington School of Medicine and Mastership from the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Blackford Middleton
Chief Informatics & Innovation Officer 
Apervita

Dr. Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, is the Chief Informatics and Innovation Officer at Apervita, Inc. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the Stanford University Medical Center Clinical Excellence Research Center. Previously, he was a professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Stanford, Harvard, and Vanderbilt Universities, and he held executive leadership roles at Stanford University Medical Center (CMIO), MedicaLogic/ Medscape (CMO), Partners Healthcare System (Director Clinical Informatics R&D), and at Vanderbilt (CIO). Dr. Middleton’s work is focused on clinical informatics – the applied science surrounding strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical information systems in complex environments. He was PI for the AHRQ-funded CDS Consortium, and the ONC-funded Advancing CDS projects, among many other R&D efforts in CDS. 

He is Past-Chair of the AHRQ-funded Patient-centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network, and a member of the CMS Alliance for Modernizing Healthcare. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Learning Health Systems, and the AHRQ ACTS Roadmap Workgroup. 

Tricia Elliott
Managing Director
National Quality Forum

Tricia Elliott, MBA, CPHQ, FNAHQ, recently joined the National Quality Forum as a Managing Director. Prior to joining NQF, Tricia was the Director of Quality Measurement at The Joint Commission. In this position, she ensured the development of scientifically based performance measures that drive improved healthcare outcomes. Ms. Elliott directed large-scale projects focused on development and implementation of electronic clinical quality measures and chart abstracted measures to support the accreditation and certification processes. In addition, Tricia has over 20 years of experience in quality and patient safety in acute care hospital environments. 

Maria Castellucci
Content Strategist
Modern Healthcare

Maria is a content strategist who helps develop events, conferences and custom content at Modern Healthcare. Prior to joining the education and events department, Maria was a reporter for more than four years at Modern Healthcare, spending the last three covering the safety and quality beat. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minor in public relations. 
 

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