Improving healthcare through data
The Center for Performance Measurement at IPRO is an interdisciplinary team that brings a broad and deep range of experience to performance measurement activities. With deep subject matter expertise in Medicare, Medicaid, infection measures, patient experience, sepsis, performance improvement, and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)-like measures, our experience spans providers, hospitals, health plans, external quality review contracts, physician advisors, MIPS, and more.
Center Experience
- Measure conceptualization
- Selecting measure criteria
- Performing literature reviews
- Conducting expert interviews
- Reviewing existing measures
- Identifying priority areas
- Measure specification, use, continuing evaluation, and maintenance
- Defining numerator, denominator, data sources
- Convening expert panels
- Creating final specifications
- Measure testing
- Recruiting pilot participants
- Conducing reliability analyses
- Surveying participants
- Measure implementation/operationalization
- Developing technical portal
- Receiving data
- Providing public reports
- Educating users on data collection
Staff Expertise
The Center’s team of research professionals is comprised of clinician researchers, performance measurement science experts, data scientists, benchmarking experts, quality management specialists, and others.
For additional information, contact nmatthes@ipro.org.
