This week, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), has released Massachusetts’ first-ever dashboard of metrics to monitor the health of primary care in the Commonwealth.

This dashboard will be an important tool for the state to create a factual foundation to drive policy initiatives and target resources to support primary care. Tracking the health of primary care is essential to identify areas that need strengthening across the key dimensions of:

• Finance – how much are we spending/investing on primary care services?
• Capacity – do we have the necessary personnel in the current primary care workforce and in the pipeline for longer-term sustainability?
• Performance – to what extent is primary care serving patients’ needs and providing quality care?
• Equity – to what extent are primary care resources equitably distributed and to what degree do access and utilization disparities exist across racial and ethnic lines?

This year, the dashboard provides baseline data for each metric, with plans to cover additional measures in future iterations. You can view a summary report of the dashboard HERE. Or you can view the dashboard on CHIA’s website HERE.

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