Nikolas Matthes, Assistant Vice President, State Healthcare Assessment, has more than 20 years of experience in health care performance measurement. He led multi-disciplinary teams to develop clinical measurement, benchmarking, and analytics solutions and clinical quality measures across a multitude of care settings in state, federal, and private sectors, both in the United States and internationally. His professional experience spans not-for-profit organizations, trade associations and the health care industry. His health care quality measure expertise includes patient level clinical quality, electronic clinical quality, and nursing sensitive quality measures as well as survey-based patient reported outcome and patient experience measurement.