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Home Research Research Library Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM) Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM) 2020 Author(s) Shuemaker, Jill C, Phillips, Robert L, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Achieving Health System Goals, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Quality Of Care, and Measurement Volume 18(4):380-382 Source Annals of Family Medicine COVID-19 altered the way the American public lived their lives; the way they worked, ate, socialized, traveled, and ultimately received their health care. Family Medicine largely closed its doors to face-to-face preventive and chronic care visits and made a large shift to telephone and online video visits. Ten days after the World Health Organization pronounced that the COVID-19 outbreak was a global pandemic, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced that CMS was granting exceptions from reporting requirements, “so the health care delivery system can direct its time and resources toward caring for patients.”15 Suddenly quality reporting requirements were optional, and clinicians who did not submit data would not be penalized, but instead receive neutral payment adjustments. This pause led the ABFM to ask, if current clinical quality measures are not valuable in a pandemic, what does that tell us about what we are measuring? Read More ABFM Research Read all 2015 Envisioning a New Health Care System for America Go to Envisioning a New Health Care System for America 2020 Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments Go to Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments 2019 Research gaps in the organisation of primary healthcare in low-income and middle-income countries and ways to address them: a mixed-methods approach Go to Research gaps in the organisation of primary healthcare in low-income and middle-income countries and ways to address them: a mixed-methods approach 2017 Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care Go to Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care
Author(s) Shuemaker, Jill C, Phillips, Robert L, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Achieving Health System Goals, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Quality Of Care, and Measurement Volume 18(4):380-382 Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2015 Envisioning a New Health Care System for America Go to Envisioning a New Health Care System for America 2020 Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments Go to Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments 2019 Research gaps in the organisation of primary healthcare in low-income and middle-income countries and ways to address them: a mixed-methods approach Go to Research gaps in the organisation of primary healthcare in low-income and middle-income countries and ways to address them: a mixed-methods approach 2017 Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care Go to Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care
2015 Envisioning a New Health Care System for America Go to Envisioning a New Health Care System for America
2020 Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments Go to Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments
2019 Research gaps in the organisation of primary healthcare in low-income and middle-income countries and ways to address them: a mixed-methods approach Go to Research gaps in the organisation of primary healthcare in low-income and middle-income countries and ways to address them: a mixed-methods approach
2017 Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care Go to Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care
