Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. That’s why quality measurement is so important in healthcare. Yet for many providers, quality measurement has become an onerous process involving people, paper ...

The authors note that metric-based quality assessment can serve as a common language between developers, regulators, and users. By grounding quality claims in observable metrics, organizations can ...

As science races to address COVID-19, among the weaknesses highlighted by the pandemic is our inability to rapidly develop clinical guidelines, related decision supports, and quality measures to ...

“More measures are not typically viewed as a good thing. Mostly what you hear about is reductions in measures, fewer better ...

KONZA Health, in collaboration with The SSI Group, announced the launch of Quality Measure Optimizer Elite (QM Optimizer Elite℠), a nationwide digital quality measurement solution designed to reduce ...

A 2024 CMS assessment concluded that “nearly $30 billion in healthcare costs were avoided between 2016 and 2021 related to ...

Quality and performance measurement has become an integral part of the healthcare system. As pharmacists continue to increase their role and exposure as healthcare providers, they are well positioned ...

With healthcare and Medicare reform initiatives set in motion and garnering substantial momentum, mechanisms and programs for assessing improvement and determining quality measures have gained ...

As someone who leads an integrated health care delivery system, this is a question I frequently find myself asking. The obvious answer, of course, is to develop measurements based on treatment ...

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, ...

Recent discussions on pre-K quality center around questions of what we should prioritize in early childhood classrooms — and how we should measure success. A new guide provides a chance “to explore ...