While healthcare informatics is driven by technology , Quality Informatics is motivated by purpose : use informatics to improve quality. We intend to promote the following ideals in the long term:

• Access to and adoption of international best practices in information management.
• Ensure transparency of Outcomes and Costs of healthcare provision.
• Promote understanding of efficiency and equity within the context of poverty.
• Create medically meaningful data- assets that are deep enough to change professional  behaviours.
• Assemble outside -the- box data to establish denominators from population and panel databases.
• Provide a platform for digital innovation and data entrepreneurship.
• Encourage adoption of big data analytics.
• Secure a collaborative space for the theory and development of local case-mix systems.
• Systematically move the payment system away from volume to value.