The National Quality Forum named five winning entries for its 2017 Innovation Challenge, including one that focuses on patient-centeredness.

Matthew Pickering, PharmD, RPh, of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, and Eleanor Perfetto, PhD, MS, of the National Health Council, were chosen for their rubric proposal that assesses the patient-centeredness of measure development and implementation.

Other winners were Colleen A. McHorney, Ph.D., Evidera and Dayo Jagun, MBBS, MPH, Genentech; Saraswathi Vedam, RM, FACNM, SciD,  Birth Place Lab, University of British Columbia; Katharina Kovacs Burns, MSc, MHSA, Ph.D., Alberta Health Services; and Sameer Saini, M.D., MS, VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research and University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

The contest winners receive $2,000. NQF received 32 submissions and all entries will be featured content in NQF’s Learning Collaborative.

“NQF is deeply committed to fostering more meaningful, innovative, and agile measures,” said Tracy Spinks, senior director of quality innovations for NQF. “The 2017 Innovation Challenge winners pose inspiring patient-centered measurement solutions to drive improved, patient-focused care in North America and abroad.”