Announcement! – Heathcare Quality Measures New Zealand resource now available

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Healthcare Quality Measures NZ

We are pleased to be able to share with you the new Healthcare Quality Measures NZ site – a place for common definitions for health related measures - including a process for submitting new measurements.

Healthcare Quality Measures NZ is a searchable resource of all health measure definitions, derivations and their constructions. Healthcare Quality Measures NZ is designed to be for the sector by the sector and provides a platform for consistent ways of measuring Healthcare as a key resource in measuring quality. It is an active resource for anyone to use measures from and contribute measures to in a structured way.

The Quality Agenda

Quality is a cornerstone of Patients First and integrates the information work with embedding continuous improvement and review in practice.

Whilst the National Health IT Board hold Patients First accountable as the “Primary Healthcare IT Programme Group”, the broader mandate and focus of the group is that of quality. Our working definition of quality is Safe, Timely, Effective, Efficient, Equitable and Patient-centred (STEEEP) care. Patients First  is working to ensure that information is seen in the context of an enabler of effective delivery of care and improving patient outcomes – and the application of quality measurements and frameworks around achieving this goal.

There has been considerable research and design work undertaken by the College in the area of Clinical Quality indicators and service quality under the Cornerstone programme.  Patients First creates the vehicle for applying the science and integrating quality and technology for efficacy and reach.