Healthcare Performance Measurements | Healthcare Outcome Measures | IBM

Healthcare performance measurements are aggregated, quantified and analyzed data on a particular healthcare-related activity. Their purpose is to identify opportunities for reducing costs, improving quality of care and increasing efficiency of care delivery. They’re also used to monitor other initiatives that an institution wants to track — or needs to track — to satisfy regulatory requirements.

These measurement initiatives are typically developed and operated with the active involvement of the physicians and hospital staff whose performance is being measured — as well as government and other third-party agencies — to ensure that the measures are meaningful, and the data are accurate.

Types of healthcare performance measurements include:

• Quality and efficiency of patient care
• Cost of healthcare services
• Disparities in performance
• Care outcomes

Level of safety and adherence to governmentally-mandated standards