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The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) is a nonprofit group of healthcare organizations, including the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, which represents more than 225 hospitals and health systems across Pennsylvania in the United States.〔Pizzi, Richard. ("Pennsylvania hospitals improve quality measures" ), ''Healthcare Finance News'', September 2, 2010.〕 ==Company history== Founded in January 2007, PHCQA originally began as an unincorporated association focused on developing alignment and agreement between payers and providers on hospital quality measures for accountability and performance assessment. The first PHCQA Progress and Performance Report on hospital quality was published in March 2008 and in October 2008 became one of only three states to make "all-or-none" composite scores of hospital performance (Appropriate Care Scores) available on a public website. In December 2008, PHCQA formally incorporated as a Pennsylvania nonprofit organization. In 2009 and 2010, PHCQA continued to work on enhancing and updating measures as additional consensus-based definitions of health care quality measures and standards were developed. PHCQA also supported various statewide quality improvement efforts via its online infrastructure (data portal and performance reporting). In 2011, PHCQA positioned itself to begin reporting ambulatory care measures and expand its membership base. It also continued to support hospitals as they prepare for value-based purchasing and focus on reducing hospital-acquired conditions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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