Commonwealth scorecard measures little change in Ohio

Ohio’s ranking in a national scorecard of health system performance has remained largely unchanged over the past five years (Source: “Healthcare scorecard shows little progress among U.S. states,” Modern Healthcare, April 30, 2014). 

The Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on State Health System assessed each state on 34 quality indicators, including readmission and mortality rates, found the majority of states did not show improvements or had decreasing scores on two-thirds of the measures between 2007 and 2012. Ohio’s overall ranking was 31st, unchanged from the last scorecard in 2009.

In an effort to to better track Ohio’s progress in improving health care value, the Health Policy Institute is continuing to work on creating  its own comprehensive dashboard of health outcome and cost measures to track the state’s progress in improving health value. The list of 100-plus metrics HPIO will use in the dashboard was finalized this week and the Institute will now begin compiling data to create concise, easy-to-read dashboards to illustrate how Ohio ranks compared to other states. To find more about that work, visit http://www.healthpolicyohio.org/groups/health-measurement/