Headway Partners With National Quality Forum to Develop Next Generation of Behavioral Health Measures With Providers at the Center | PR Newswire [Video]

Headway leads as first launch partner of Aligned Innovation, a multi-stakeholder initiative led by the National Quality Forum to accelerate development of healthcare quality measures

Headway’s involvement seeks to empower mental health providers to understand functional improvement, not just symptom improvement 

, /PRNewswire/ — Headway, the company building a new mental healthcare system, today announced its participation in the Aligned Innovation initiative, a groundbreaking cross-industry collaboration led by the National Quality Forum(NQF). Aligned Innovation is designed to accelerate development of outcome-oriented healthcare quality measures that are most meaningful to patients and clinicians, while also supporting reduced measure burden. As the initiative’s first launch partner, Headway will help advance the next generation of quality measures for behavioral health by empowering providers to be at the center of developing an assessment tool for understanding progress in treating depression and anxiety. Headway is engaging more than 100 providers on its platform as key partners to …