The Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes (HQO) is responsible for analysis, coordination, research, and evaluation of policies related to health care quality and outcomes. HQO’s responsibilities include long-range planning, data development and analysis, program oversight, analysis of regulations and legislation, review and conduct of research and evaluation activities, and information dissemination. Relevant topic areas include:
- Quality measures
- Value based purchasing
- Public reporting
- Comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient centered outcomes research and associated data infrastructure and information technology