Audiology is at a pivotal moment in the evolution of outcome measurement. Recent national efforts, including the 2025 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report and the development of a core outcome set for audiology, have renewed attention to the need for meaningful, coordinated, and patient-centered outcome assessment. Together, these initiatives represent an important step toward establishing a common language for measuring the impact of audiologic care and demonstrating its value to patients, providers, health systems, and payers. 

Despite widespread recognition of the importance of patient-reported and other clinically meaningful outcomes, adoption in routine practice remains inconsistent. Clinicians face challenges related to workflow integration, measure selection, technology infrastructure, and uncertainty regarding the value of collected data. At the same time, increasing emphasis on quality reporting, value-based care, and reimbursement reform highlights the need for standardized approaches that can be implemented efficiently across practice settings. 

This forum in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups seeks to bridge the gap between recommendation and implementation. Our goals are to educate audiologists about the importance of coordinated outcome measurement, provide practical tools that support clinical adoption, highlight the value of national data collection efforts, and explore how meaningful outcomes can support reimbursement and advocacy. We welcome submissions that address, for example, the following themes: 

• The importance of meaningful outcome measurement in audiology—including the history of outcomes assessment, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), barriers to adoption, and strategies for integrating outcomes into routine care. 
• The NASEM report and the audiology core outcome set—including the development process, stakeholder engagement, selection of core outcomes, implementation in clinical and educational settings, and innovative dissemination strategies. 
• Data registries, data sharing, and learning health systems—including large-scale data collection efforts, benchmarking, quality improvement, interoperability, data science applications, and the value of coordinated outcome measurement programs. 
• Outcome measurement, value, and reimbursement—including the use of outcomes to demonstrate effectiveness, support policy change, inform value-based care initiatives, evaluate CMS and other reimbursement pathways, and strengthen advocacy efforts. 
• Future directions in outcome science—including artificial intelligence, digital health technologies, remote outcome monitoring, learning health systems, and future research priorities. 
• Practical tools and resources for implementation—including clinical workflows, implementation case studies, educational materials, dashboards, visual abstracts, infographics, multimedia resources, and other strategies that facilitate adoption across practice settings. 

This forum aims to move the profession beyond the question of whether audiologists should measure outcomes and toward practical discussions of how meaningful outcomes can be integrated into routine care, aggregated across systems, leveraged to advance the profession, and ultimately used to improve the lives of individuals with hearing and balance disorders. Authors are encouraged to contact the editor (sananthakrishnan@towson.edu) if they have questions or would like to discuss potential submissions. 

Letters of Intent Due August 1, 2026. Letters of Intent will help guide topic selection and balance across the forum but do not guarantee acceptance of a full submission. Letters of Intent should include: 

• Proposed manuscript title 
• Author(s) and affiliation(s) 
• Article type 
• A brief summary (250 words maximum) describing the proposed contribution 
• Identification of the primary theme addressed by the manuscript