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 ...

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 ...

The National Association of ACOs is the latest to respond to CMS electronic quality measure goals. Which challenge to tackle first in digital quality reporting? The National Association of ACOs ...

Are imperfect and limited measures of health care quality and value better than none at all? That may not be just a rhetorical question soon, given that House Republicans are considering seriously the ...

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, chief scientific officer of The National Quality Forum, explained that the 2 gaps that exist in quality measurement currently include data infrastructure and patient ...

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 ...

Skilled nursing providers are worried they could see their star ratings drop following new changes to the quality measure rating threshold, according to a top expert. Care Compare’s April 2022 ...

A federal workgroup tasked with reviewing national quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services has delivered its biennial report, calling for the removal of three measures and the ...

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 ...

There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to ...