About QASC

The Quality Alliance Steering Committee, a collaborative effort among a variety of key stakeholders, is working to make consistent and useful information about the quality and cost of health care widely available. The High-Value Health Care Project is a QASC initiative developed to support this goal.

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Featured Event

Capitol Hill Briefing:
July 30, 2009
Getting to a High-Value Health Care System: Developing the Infrastructure for Meaningful Quality Measurement and Reporting
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Long-Term Quality Alliance

Long-Term Quality Alliance

Learn about the newest organization dedicated to improving quality measurement and reporting.

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Achieving Better Chronic Care at Lower Costs

Achieving Better Chronic Care at Lower Costs

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Refom recently hosted a forum on improving care for older Americans across a range of institutional and community-based settings.

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Developing the Infrastructure for Meaningful Quality Measurement and Reporting

Developing the Infrastructure for Meaningful Quality Measurement and Reporting

Watch the webcast of this Capitol Hill briefing on the importance of measuring and reporting health care quality, particularly as a key component of health care reform.

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Health IT and Health Reform

A recent forum addressed the effective implementation of the stimulus funds dedicated to driving “meaningful use”

A recent Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings forum addressed the effective implementation of stimulus funds dedicated to driving “meaningful use” of health IT.

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Measuring and Reporting on Quality

Learn more about many of the performance measurement and reporting initiatives underway across the United States.

Learn more about many of the performance measurement and reporting initiatives underway across the United States.

EVENT: Charting a Course for Health Care Quality Improvement

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings will host "Charting a Course for Health Care Quality Improvement: Data-Driven Strategies for Eliminating Health Disparities," a national conference bringing together key stakeholders to advance strategies for improved data collection, integration and utilization activities, as well as disparities measurement to promote health care equity. Learn More and Register 

Reporting Cost and Price Information to Consumers

The Quality Alliance Steering Committee's Cost and Transparency Workgroup recently identified principles and recommendations to payers, providers, and third-party entities for making cost and price information available to the public. Read More

 

Getting to High-Value Health Care

Major gaps exist between the health care that people should receive and the care they actually receive. The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the QASC, is working to make sure consistent information becomes widely available to consumers, providers, and public and private payers of health care. Read More