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press@qualityforum.orgNQF Announces Winners of 2017 Innovation Challenge
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum (NQF) today announced five
winning entries for its 2017 Innovation Challenge. The contest challenged NQF
members and others in the measure development community to submit innovative and agile approaches to incorporating
one or more Principles for Making Health
Care Measurement Patient-Centered in performance measurement. Innovation Challenge winners received a cash prize
and a national platform to share ideas through the NQF Learning Collaborative.
NQF issued the 2017 Innovation Challenge as part of its Measure
Incubator™, an initiative that nurtures
the development of needed measures by connecting organizations
interested in particular measure concepts with measure development experts,
financial and technical resources, and data. NQF received a total of 32
submissions for the Innovation Challenge, and all entries will be featured content
for NQF’s Learning
Collaborative. Launched in early 2017, the NQF Learning Collaborative shares
knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices to inform, improve, accelerate,
and better target measure development.
“NQF is deeply
committed to fostering more meaningful, innovative, and agile measures,” said Tracy
Spinks, senior director of quality innovations for NQF. “The 2017 Innovation
Challenge winners pose inspiring patient-centered measurement solutions to drive
improved, patient-focused care in North America and abroad.”
The 2017
Innovation Challenge winners and their organizational affiliations are:
- Colleen A. McHorney,
PhD, Evidera and Dayo Jagun, MBBS, MPH, Genentech—Share ongoing work
where patients and caregivers have a central role in conceptualizing oncology
measures that address patients’ concerns, values, and preferences
- Saraswathi Vedam, RM, FACNM, SciD, Birth Place Lab, University of British
Columbia—Describes the development and validation of
patient-designed measures of autonomy and respect, as well as tools to capture patients’
reported mistreatment in maternity care
- Katharina Kovacs
Burns, MSc, MHSA, PhD, Alberta Health Services—Explores a
strategy to engage patient and family advisors in gathering and analyzing
patient experience data in real-time
- Sameer Saini, MD, MS, VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical
Management Research and University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy
and Innovation—Outlines measures of colorectal cancer screening that
incorporate individual screening benefit and patient preferences
- Matthew
Pickering, PharmD, RPh, Pharmacy Quality Alliance and Eleanor Perfetto, PhD, MS,
National Health Council—Propose a rubric to assess the
patient-centeredness of measure development and implementation
Innovation
Challenge winners will receive a cash award of $2,000. Winners will present
their entries during NQF webinars beginning January 23, 2018. Register here.
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