AQA Alliance

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American College of Physicians (ACP), Americas Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), joined together to lead an effort for determining, under the most expedient timeframe, how to most effectively and efficiently improve performance measurement, data aggregation, and reporting in the ambulatory care setting.

The mission of the AQA alliance -- a broad based collaborative of physicians, consumers, purchasers, health insurance plans and others -- is to:

improve health care quality and patient safety through a collaborative process in which key stakeholders agree on a strategy for measuring performance at the physician or group level; collecting and aggregating data in the least burdensome way; and reporting meaningful information to consumers, physicians, and other stakeholders to inform choices and improve outcomes.

Douglas E. Henley, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., the Academy's Executive Vice President, is a member of the AQA steering committee. Steven Waldren, M.D., is Co-chair of the Data Sharing and Aggregation Workgroup and the Subcommittee on Health-IT.