The National Quality Forum (NQF) is convening a new Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) workgroup to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on performance measures to improve healthcare in the nation’s rural areas. Establishing a MAP Rural Health Workgroup was one of the major recommendations from a 2015 NQF report. In addition to identifying the challenges rural providers face in healthcare performance measurement, the report recommended that rural healthcare providers be integrated into federal quality programs so they are better able to evaluate the care they provide and identify ways to improve it..
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