Motive Expands Practicing Wisely to APPs and AHPs
New capabilities extend evidence-based clinician performance measurement across the evolving healthcare workforce
Motive Medical Intelligence has expanded its Practicing Wisely clinician performance measurement system to include advanced practice providers (APPs) and allied health professionals (AHPs) as these clinicians take on a growing role in U.S. healthcare delivery.
The expansion allows healthcare organizations to evaluate APPs and AHPs against evidence-based standards within their scope of practice, creating a more consistent way to measure clinical decision-making across physicians and other members of the care team.
The need for broader measurement comes as the healthcare workforce continues to change. The nurse practitioner workforce grew an average of 10% annually between 2019 and 2023, according to data cited by Motive. Meanwhile, the share of Medicare outpatient evaluation and management visits delivered by NPs and PAs increased from 14% in 2013 to 25.6% in 2019.
Motive says its analysis of real-world performance found similar patterns among physicians, APPs and AHPs, including comparable levels of performance and variation. Practicing Wisely measures clinicians on services they are licensed to perform, including medication management, laboratory ordering, wellness visits and prenatal screening.
“Healthcare is a team sport, and the data bears that out,” said Julie Scherer, Ph.D., Chief Solutions Officer at Motive. “Measuring everyone who renders care against a single, evidence-based standard is essential to driving meaningful improvement.”
Practicing Wisely is designed to identify unwarranted variation and low-value care, helping payers and providers target opportunities to improve quality and reduce unnecessary spending. Motive estimates that low-value and unnecessary care contributes to more than $400 billion in annual healthcare waste in the U.S.
