A Vision for Quality Data Infrastructure to Support Health System Transformation

State, federal, and private agencies are exploring and investing in new health care delivery models--including nearly $300 million awarded to states to support State Innovation Models (SIM), multi-payer payment and care delivery transformation initiatives. Successful care delivery transformation efforts hinge on provider and payer access to reliable and comprehensive data through robust quality measurement, reporting, and feedback infrastructure as enabled through robust health information technology (IT). This State Heath Policy Briefing describes key elements of an aligned health IT-enabled infrastructure as identified by state, federal and private leaders involved in the HIT Trailblazers States project, a joint initiative of the NASHP and ONC. Together, these elements form a focused, achievable vision for how states and their stakeholder partners can efficiently develop and operationalize a quality measurement and reporting infrastructure that supports patientcentered, value-based care delivery. June 2013