Assignment Purpose: There is a plethora of quality measures. Health care leaders need to understand the direction that health care is moving to measure and report on quality in all facets of care. This assignment will help you demonstrate your knowledge of at least one national system used by most physician groups and all health plans. Consider that your audience are peers in this class who are also learning about quality measurement systems.

Assignment Directions: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has been tracking and measuring health outcomes through several different, national methods. Two of the most well know are the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and the Health Effectiveness Data Information System (HEDIS). Both of these systems are using in physician offices. PQRS is directed toward outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. HEDIS is used mostly in primary care physician offices. All Medicaid health plans and most employer health plans collect and use HEDIS data yearly.

From the PQRS or HEDIS list (found in the Resources folder) pick one quality measure to profile in your assignment.

Create your own infographic about this one measure that provides information about the measure and the important indicators surrounding that measure. Note what is important for the public to know about this one measure. (There is information on creatinginfographics in the Resources folder).

This assignment is worth 100 points. This assignment is due on Sunday.

This Key Assessment Assignment will evaluate Course Objective 2