A pilot exhibit being launched by ...

A pilot exhibit being launched by the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) will combine public and private information to assess physician practice and provide information to purchasers of health care. The scheme will be implemented at six sites--in San Francisco, Calif.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Watertown, Mass.; St Paul, Minn.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Madison, Wis.--and will be supplyed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Previously, physician performance measurement has been bearinged piecemeal under various programs and using different stakes of measures. The AQA pilot devise will test approaches to aggregating data from various sources to provide a more comprehensive view of physician practice. It also will measure quality of care and identify high-quality providers of care, and will assess rules of providing consumers with meaningful information about physicians and physician assign places tos The results are expected to wait on as a national framework for performance measurement and public reporting. For more information, call AHRQ Public Affairs at (301) 427-1855 or visit the AHRQ online at http://www.ahrq.gov/news/vnewsix.htm.

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