The QASC was established in 2006 by two health quality alliances – the AQA alliance and the Hospital Quality Alliance – along with other stakeholders, to help develop an overall framework for the effective use of standard quality and cost measures nationwide.
 
Many different private- and public-sector groups have designed models for assessing performance and reporting data, and the QASC was formed with the intention of building on existing approaches to measuring health care quality. While such efforts advanced the enterprise, they had not achieved the level of coordination and consistency in implementing measures of quality that could be achieved by the broad group of stakeholders. Thus, the QASC was designed to provide a potential solution by bringing everyone together and helping the public get a more complete and accurate picture of the quality of health care, as well as to develop information on quality and cost of care that can be used to help identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
 
Read more about the launch of the QASC.