The mission of the Quality Institute, which is part of the Dutch National Health Care Institute, is to promote quality of healthcare. It is cooperating with all parties within healthcare to improve quality and insight into quality. Input from all stakeholders, including healthcare providers, clients, and providers of healthcare insurance, is important for the realisation of quality standards and measuring instruments. The starting point is the demands of the client. The Quality Institute has drawn up a framework to test criteria with which quality standards and measuring instruments must comply. This promotes the development of good quality standards and measuring instruments that deliver useful and reliable information. The current practice of parallel registration of patient data, for the care process and to deliver quality-information, causes high administrative burdens and is not future-proof. For that reason the Quality Institute, together with other parties in healthcare, is developing the concept of an 'information standard'. This should eventually lead to multiple use of unambiguous data registered at source.