Pathways to Quality Measurement Through Health IT is a 2-year, AHRQ-sponsored initiative that enables advancements in health IT-enabled quality measurement and reporting by identifying strategies, a health services infrastructure, and research issues related to health IT-enabled quality measures. Reports and other materials emanating from this initiative will culminate in the development of a strategic plan to improve health care quality enabled by health IT.

An Environmental Snapshot-- Quality Measurement Enabled by Health IT: Overview, Challenges, and Possibilities (PDF, 1.67 MB)   PDF Help.
	Provides an overview of health IT-enabled quality measurement; Discusses possibilities for the next generation of health IT-enabled quality measurement; Illustrates challenges to achieving the next generation of health IT-enabled quality measurement; and Describes over 80 Federal, State, regional, and private activities seeking to improve health-IT enabled quality measurement.

Request for Information (RFI) on Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement (Comment period ended September 21, 2012)

AHRQ is seeking insight from diversified stakeholders via a Request for Information (RFI) to identify successful strategies for improving health IT-enabled quality measurement. Through this RFI, AHRQ will explore pathways toward nonregulatory solutions for challenges to achieving the next generation of health IT-enabled quality measurement. To access the RFI, please visit:  https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/08/22/2012-20550/request-for-information-on-quality-measurement-enabled-by-health-it-extension-date-for-responses. 

Last Modified: September 2012