About PHCQA:
Mission & Goals
The mission of the Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) is to improve the quality of patient health by developing a statewide approach on hospital quality measures that will help providers to evaluate and improve the quality of their patient care, enable consumers to compare provider performance, and help insurers evaluate the performance of their provider networks.
We aim to achieve these goals by:
- Creating a uniform statewide approach to transparency of health care quality performance measurement that is fair and valid.
- Utilizing measures that are evidence-based and actionable, and that enable alignment across medical conditions and settings of care.
- Building on state, federal, and private data sources and measures, as appropriate.
- Utilizing methods of measurement, data collection, and reporting that are statistically sound and not unreasonably burdensome to capture or report.
Timeline
PHCQA's first report will be published in early 2008. The PHCQA will continue to work on enhancing, updating and adding measures as additional shared definitions of health care quality measures and standards are developed.
