Saraswathi Vedam
Saraswathi Vedam, Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice, was one of five people to win the 2017 Innovation Challenge from the U.S.-based National Quality Forum (NQF), for developing and validating patient-designed measures of autonomy and respect, as well as tools to capture patients’ reported mistreatment in maternity care.
NQF issued the 2017 Innovation Challenge as part of its Measure Incubator, an initiative that nurtures the development of needed measures by connecting organizations interested in particular measure concepts with measure development experts, financial and technical resources, and data.
NQF received 32 submissions for the Innovation Challenge, and all entries will be featured content for NQF’s Learning Collaborative. Innovation Challenge winners received a cash prize and a national platform to share ideas through the NQF Learning Collaborative. Launched in early 2017, the NQF Learning Collaborative shares knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices to inform, improve, accelerate, and better target measure development.