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The Roadmap for Quality Measurement recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth the current state of quality measurement efforts focusing on the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program. The Roadmap provides for the potential future direction of expanding and enhancing the implementation and use of quality measures. The Roadmap notes that quality measurement will need to continue to focus on evidence-based measures that contain more information relating to: 1. health outcomes for the patient, 2. transition of the patient across health delivery settings, and 3. resources used to treat the patient. The Roadmap encourages future quality measures that support quality improvement activities by providing quality measurement information that will enable outcomes-driven, evidence-based care to be provided to all patients and address current disparities. In the future CMS hopes to improve the coordination and integration of care beyond a single practitioner or setting.