A Guide to Measuring the Triple Aim: Population Health, Experience of Care, and Per Capita Cost | IHI

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the Triple Aim of simultaneously improving population health, improving the patient experience of care, and reducing per capita cost. 

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the Triple Aim as a statement of purpose for fundamentally new health systems that contribute to the overall health of populations while reducing costs (IHI’s Triple Aim prototyping initiative).

A useful system of measurement for the Triple Aim is essential. This white paper provides a menu of suggested measures for the three dimensions of the Triple Aim. The paper also describes how the measures might be used along with increasingly specific, cascading process and outcome measures for particular projects to create a learning system to achieve the Triple Aim.