Quality Metrics & Safety

Quality and safety activity in the last 24 hours is centered less on new CMS rulemaking and more on operationalizing measurable outcomes: HIMSS is launching an initiative to quantify AI’s impact in healthcare, a signal that health systems and ACOs will face growing pressure to prove AI tools improve safety, access, workflow, and cost—not just adoption rates (HIMSS AI measurement initiative). At the same time, disability-focused outcome improvement and oncology biomarker standardization point to a broader VBC tension: quality programs must move beyond generic process measures toward equity-sensitive, condition-specific standards that can support risk adjustment, care gap closure, and defensible shared-savings performance (AHA disability outcomes focus).