It's not the data... It's what you do with it

Over 20 years ago, seven hospitals in Maryland agreed to what was then an unprecedented activity—they began sharing sensitive data on clinical outcomes with an eye toward learning from one another. Their burning questions: Are we doing the right things? Are we doing them well?

The groundbreaking work of these seven hospitals led to the formation of the Quality Indicator Project^®. Hospitals all over the country took notice. Today, over 1,000 acute care hospitals and other healthcare facilities count on us as a critical resource in their efforts to oversee patient care quality and identify opportunities for improvement.

Working hand in hand with our participants, we've expanded our measurement methodology along the continuum of care—from acute care hospitals to long-term care facilities to home care agencies to psychiatric care facilities—and added services to enable facilities to meet various regulatory requirements. At the same time the QI Project has helped increase participants' ability to put their data to work, resulting in countless documented improvements, better treatment, increased patient safety, and more efficient care delivery.

Click here to read about the QI Project in Modern Healthcare.