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Kahn serves as a member of the Governing Board of the National Quality Forum (NQF), where he helps build consensus on national priorities for healthcare quality reform and the standards for measuring and reporting on quality. He also serves on the strategy-setting Coordinating Committee of the NQF's Measure Applications Partnership, which was established under the Affordable Care Act to advise the federal Department of Health and Human Services on selecting measures for public reporting and performance-based healthcare payment programs.
Kahn also is a founding principal of the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), a private-public partnership that he helped to initiate. The HQA is a national private-public collaboration focused on improving hospital quality and making comparative quality information available to the public through the Hospital Compare website.
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