Driving health improvements through measurement alignment
Healthcare quality and cost measurement aims to provide better, more affordable care for individuals and the community. Measuring and incenting the right things is important but doing so requires experts to agree on what those things should be.
Creating a core set of healthcare measures to focus and align priorities is the first step toward aligning incentives around the things that matter. Experts from across the Commonwealth of Kentucky have created the Kentucky Core Healthcare Measures Set (KCHMS), which brings together the priorities of consumers, providers, payers, and purchasers. By focusing on everything, we focus on nothing. But by focusing on the right things, we can drive improvements.
About the Measures Set
The Kentucky Core Healthcare Measures Set consists of 38 primary care measures, intended to align measurement efforts toward shared areas of focus. This makes Kentucky one of the first states in the nation to create a healthcare measurement set.
“It was really exciting to contribute to such an important endeavor, joining with various stakeholders from around the state, working collectively to improve the health of the Commonwealth. By standardizing and aligning around key quality metrics, we are aiming to move the needle on population health, right here in Kentucky.”
Misty Roberts | Associate Vice President, Clinical Quality Officer | Humana Inc.
Meet the Team
The KCHMS was created by experts from across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Organizations with representatives on the committee include:
All Children Pediatrics
Anthem
Baptist Health
CareSource
Catholic Health Initiatives
CHI St Joseph Health Partners
CareSource
Development and Growth Strategies LLC
Family Health Centers
Foundation for a Health Kentucky
GE Appliances, a Haier company
Have a Heart Clinic
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, Kentucky Department of Public Health
Humana
Kentuckiana Health Collaborative
Kentucky Coordinated Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Program, KY Dept of Public Health
Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services
Kentucky Health Collaborative
Kentucky Hospital Association
Kentucky Nurses Association
Kentucky Diabetes Network
Kentucky Personnel Cabinet
Kentucky Primary Care Association
Kentucky Regional Extension Center
LG&E/KU
Norton Healthcare
Papa John’s International Inc.
Passport by Molina
QSource
St. Elizabeth Physicians
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville SPHIS
White House Clinics
