2025 QI and Tech
Update
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Nirav Shah, MD
QI Director, MPOG
Agenda
● 2025 QI Snapshot
● Review 2025 priorities shared at
last year's Retreat
● 2026 plans
Disclosures
● No personal financial, consulting, or contractual relationships with any vendor
● Projects sponsored by contracts / grants paid to University of Michigan
○ Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan (BCBSM)
○ Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
○ National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Measure Reviewers – Thank you!
Ben Stam
UMH West
SUS 01 and 04
Mike Aziz
OHSU
NMB 02
Kunal Karamchandani
UT Southwestern
TOC 01
Mariya Geube
Cleveland Clinic
TEMP 06 C
Eva Lu Boettcher
U Wisconsin
SUS 02 and 03
Ashan Grewal
University of Maryland
TEMP 07 C
Tony Edelman
U Michigan
NMB 01
Brady Still
U Chicago
SUS 05 Peds
Measure Reviewers – Thank you!
Jeana Havidich
Vanderbilt Health
TRAN 03 Peds
Aman Kalsi
Vanderbilt Health
TRAN 04 Peds
Sunny Chiao
U Virginia
TEMP 01
Rob Schonberger
Yale University
BP 05
Marc Pimental
Brigham and Women’s
BP 02
Jonathan Kaper
Corewell Health East
TEMP 02
Emily Lai
MD Anderson
PONV 05
Charles Schrock
Washington U
NMB 03 Peds
Subcommittee Chairs and Vice Chairs – Thank You!
Morgan Brown
Boston Children’s
Pediatric
Anesthesia
Vikas O’Reilly Shah
Seattle Children's
Pediatric
Anesthesia
Brandon Togioka
OHSU
Obstetric
Anesthesia
Allison Janda
University of
Michigan
Cardiac
Anesthesia
Wandana Joshi
Dartmouth
Obstetric
Anesthesia
2025 QI Footprint
Health System and Hospital Dashboards: ~110
Distribution: 25 States, 3 Countries
ABA MOCA Part IV
2025 Priorities we shared at last year’s MPOG Retreat
● Keep the lights on… new measures, measure
review, measure retirements, subcommittee
work
● Registry integration for QI
● Develop visualization relevant for health
equity initiatives
● Learn about QI for Regional Anesthesia
● Convene Ad Hoc Workgroup to understand
requirements for resident / fellow inclusion
in QI efforts
● Plan for PROs
● Wrap up major development in QI
Reporting and pivot to DataDirect
Measure Lifecycle – Build, Use, Retire
● ABX 06 OB
● BP 07 C
● CARD 04
● SSI 01 MSQC
● SUS 08
● CARD 02
● CARD 03
● TRAN 04 Peds
Surgical Registry Integration – State of Michigan
Introducing Health Equity Relevant Data in Dashboards – PONV 05
MPOG and Quality in Regional Anesthesia – Where to start?
● 2026 Plan: Explore Variation in care
● Total Hip & Total Knee - % with spinal/epidural
anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, general anesthesia
● Total Shoulder - % with single shot vs. peripheral
nerve catheter
Chris Wu
Hospital for Special
Surgery
ASPIRE
Collaborative
Meeting July 2025
Supporting Education Mission
● Launched ad hoc workgroup to collect
feedback on how to best support learners
● Started including SRNAs in feedback
emails
●
2026 Plans: Enable multiple measure
groups within an email, to support learner
specific measures
●
2026 and beyond: Will coordinate efforts
with PACE group
Applications
● QI Reporting tool
○ Stability and performance
○ End of 2025: Upgrade to a more modern
development platform
○
2026 Plan: OPPE views
○
2026 Plan: Default preferences
● Data Direct
○
2026 Plan: Move “Quality Case Reports” to
DataDirect
● Provider Contacts
○ Auto-populate NPI information from NPPES
registry
● Provider Feedback
○
2026 Plan: redesign
The future
● Extend detailed EHR data
beyond immediate
perioperative period
● Meet the provider where
they are at
● Keep listening to our
partners - you
Thank you! Next…
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