QualityMetric Incorporated has integrated the consumer’s voice into health care decision-making with self-reported health outcomes surveys used worldwide to measure health status with scientific validity in clinical practice, disease management, population monitoring, risk assessment, clinical trials, and direct-to-consumer marketing. Founded in 1997 by John E. Ware, Jr., PhD, principal developer of the SF-36®, SF-12®, and SF-8™ Health Surveys, QualityMetric’s scientific expertise has dramatically evolved the value and precision of health-related quality of life measurement while our technological applications, including the world’s first computerized dynamic health assessments, have broadened the options for administration.

DYNHA® Computer Adaptive Survey Technology: Faster and Smarter Health Assessments

QualityMetric was the first company in the world to introduce the application of computer adaptive technology for generic and disease-specific health assessments via the Internet. DYNHA was designed by QualityMetric scientists and technology experts to make health outcomes surveys short, precise, and dynamic based on the unique answers of each respondent. Used for clinical trials, in direct-to-consumer marketing, and by disease management companies and health plans, DYNHA computer adaptive technology:

• Can be customized to offer combinations of SF generic and disease-specific surveys
• Can be administered widely and cost-effectively on the Internet and most computers (including handhelds)
• Fosters relationship building between members and health plans, patients and doctors, consumers and pharmaceutical companies
• Achieves the same scientific validity and interpretation as static surveys with greater precision of measurement
• Is growing dramatically in use as health care more broadly adopts technology

As with QualityMetric’s static surveys, some of the DYNHA survey products are “off-the-shelf”, others are ready and available for customization, and others await the partnerships necessary to complete their development.

QualityMetric has devoted over a decade of scientific endeavor to standardize the metrics of health outcomes measurement. We partner with clients worldwide to offer practical, cost-effective, and easy to use products and services that improve health care and reduce costs. If you have a question, comment, or curiosity about what we do:

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