The MMA champions quality improvement efforts and strives to provide physicians with the tools and resources, such as the MMA Quality Review, they need to give their patients the best possible care.
Quality improvement initiatives include evidence-based clinical recommendations, quality measurement, electronic health information, physician reimbursement for improved quality (pay for performance), and legislation.
The MMA has also been a leader in efforts to improve patient safety through the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety. The MMA will continue to join local and national efforts to reduce medical errors with particular attention to identifying root causes of errors, ensuring data privacy and confidentiality, reducing the culture of blame in the health care industry, and the working towards equitable distribution of costs.
The MMA is currently working with the Department of Health to help educate physicians about Minnesota's new statewide quality reporting initiative.