National Quality Forum (NQF) President and CEO Christine Cassel, M.D., and Richard Kronick, Ph.D., the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, write in JAMA that the following measures are needed to implement value-based care:

As summarized by Fierce Healthcare they are:

• “Align and prioritize the most meaningful measures: This is vital to ensure that measurement-related efforts improve outcomes while reducing unnecessary data collection and reporting.
• “Ensure that measures are meaningful to patients and clinicians:  To make sure organizations use only the most salient measures, collaborate with the people who will actually use them, such as patients, frontline workers and purchasers.
• “Ensure that measures are meaningful to patients and clinicians:  To make sure organizations use only the most salient measures, collaborate with the people who will actually use them, such as patients, frontline workers and purchasers.”