Developing a National Publicly Reported Health Outcomes Platform in the US to Improve Outcomes

The US lags behind other nations with similar economic development in key health outcomes like life expectancy and maternal mortality. Improving population health outcomes requires comprehensive real-world data (RWD) of health outcomes, but unfortunately, no such centralized data platform exists in the US. In a new article in Health Affairs, authors Peter A. Wadsworth, Stephen M. Shortell, andJohn S. Toussaint propose a Publicly Reported Health Outcomes (PHRO) program.

According to the authors, “A PRHO program is intended to provide health quality comparisons of health plans and provider organizations to purchasers, government officials, and the general public. Health plan and provider organization executives may also find PRHO helpful in comparing their health quality performance with that of other organizations.”

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(Source: Health Affairs, July 19th, 2022)