What is the organization’s mission? Is the organization a governmental, accreditation, or regulatory agency? Is the information collected for internal or external stakeholders?

Mission of organization: To provide evidence-based, high-quality services to improve health and wellbeing of families and individuals. It is a non-profit regulatory organization that gathers healthcare quality information for external and internal stakeholders. These include data about clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction scores, medical mistakes, provider ratings, hospital ratings systems, as well as other relevant performance indicators. Data collected by public health and policy organizations helps to inform their decisions in order for safe care to be delivered across settings. These data can also be used to inform healthcare professionals in making choices about the clinical care they provide or who is selected as a provider.