Oct 10, 2017
On this episode, we talk with John D'Amore. John is Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Diameter Health and has been working on Quality Measures in healthcare since the early 2000s. Yup, pre-EMR quality measures!
John takes us on a fascinating journey from paper based quality measurement (see RHQDAPU... at least we've streamlined our acronyms!) to the dawn of electronic measurement. via the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). He explains why the single-EMR approach made sense in the hospital, but how the industry was hurt when it decided to apply that approach in the ambulatory setting. Finally, John describes the future state where quality measures are calculated from a longitudinal patient record that encompasses all the care a patient has received. This, of course, calls for a trusted central authority to do the aggregation, data remediation and reporting. Perhaps, an HIE?
It's a complex story and John delivers it well. We dig through all that and so much more, including:
We'll be continuing the Quality Measurement series over the next month or two. I hope you enjoy the setup episode as much as I did!
~ Don Lee