Study: Complexity of quality measures impeding adoption

Editor's Note

Nearly three-quarters of physicians and health plan executives say quality measures are too complex, making it difficult for physicians to achieve them in a survey by Quest Diagnostics and Inovalon.

Other findings include:

• 65% of physicians don’t have all the patient information they need
• 64% of physicians don’t have the tools needed to succeed in a value-based care system
• 85% of physicians were “likely/very likely” to use a tool that provides on-demand, patient-specific data to identify gaps in quality, risk, and utilization as well as medical history insight in real-time clinical workflow.

A new study of physicians and health plan executives suggests that the complexity of quality measures and physicians' lack of access to patient data at the point of care are barriers to the healthcare industry's adoption of value-based care.