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Help Drive Measurable Improvements in Healthcare Quality

Become a National Quality Forum Member

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Our Mission

To be the trusted voice driving measurable health improvements

Our Vision

Every person experiences high value care and optimal health outcomes

NQF's Unique Value

We believe that individuals and organizations can improve patient outcomes by finding common ground, even on contentious issues.

NQF members are diverse experts building multistakeholder consensus on the measurement standards and practices that improve safety, outcomes, affordability, and equity.

NQF’s strategic affiliation with The Joint Commission brings our work directly to the front lines of care. We are forging long-desired alignment—across payers and purchasers regarding the measures required for public and private payment and accountability programs and for the patients and providers who want them to be clinically meaningful and operationally feasible for all.

Achieving better outcomes requires accelerating development and deployment of high impact, low burden measures and reducing the cacophony of competing measures adding unnecessary costs and burden.

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Advance next generation measures, methods and practices

  • Determining and filling the high priority measure gaps
  • Identifying and addressing data infrastructure needed for high impact, low burden measurement and improvement
  • Accelerating next generation measures, methods and practices
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Scale implementation of performance measurement and practices to achieve impact

  • Guiding the selection and use of measures
  • Enabling multistakeholder measure set implementation
  • Promoting practices that improve safety, equity, quality, and affordability

Together We are Leading Exciting Work

Our partnership with The Joint Commission quickly moves next-generation measures and methods into practice through accreditation, certification, and other scaled initiatives that work through payers, purchasers, providers, and policymakers to directly improve patient care.

NQF’s expanded work directly addresses the frustrating pain points in performance improvement:

  • Too many competing measures
  • Insufficient focus on outcomes that matter to patients
  • Costly and time-consuming data capture
  • Measures development takes too long and costs too much
  • Lack of guidance and support to help organizations improve outcomes and care
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Why Join the National Quality Forum?

Our members represent every key constituency in the healthcare ecosystem: patients, providers, payers, purchasers, and policymakers.

Together, stakeholders collaborate on streamlining existing measures and create and implement new ones that fill high-priority gaps to create better outcomes and reduce burdens for all in the healthcare system.

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A Seat at the Table

Your voice matters. Join the conversation and be included in our unique multistakeholder consensus-building process to drive better outcomes, equity, quality and affordability.
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Collaborative Influence

Engage with a diverse community of stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, healthcare organizations, payers, policymakers, and patients and caregivers, to collaboratively influence national healthcare priorities.
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Lead by Example

Be a catalyst for transformation. Inspire change through action and be the driving force behind progress in healthcare quality.
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Expert Insights

Access cutting-edge information, research, and expert insights to stay ahead in the ever-changing healthcare ecosystem.
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Shape the Future

Influence healthcare policies and practices and make your vision a reality. Together, we can forge the path to a better tomorrow.
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Networking Opportunities

Connect with leaders and innovators in healthcare quality to share knowledge, ideas, and best practices.