Among the reforms spelled out in the Affordable Care Act is development of two fundamental activities largely absent in health care — recognizing and rewarding quality care. The first, and possibly ...

D efining and measuring quality in health care isn’t easy. New yardsticks from the Core Quality Measurement Collaborative are a step in the right direction. These new measures cover seven broad ...

ABSTRACT. Objectives: To develop an index using publicly available data to measure progress in addressing health care disparities. Study Design: Given inherent socioeconomic differences between ...

Quality of care metrics are indicators used to evaluate how health services increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. They provide a way to measure and control the effectiveness, safety ...

Newsweek's AI Impact Award winners share how they measure success and guarantee outcomes: setting themselves apart in a ...

Moreover, recent findings suggest that some health care quality measures inappropriately include or exclude transgender people and are not tailored to address the unique needs of this population.

Trump's sweeping health care overhaul faces scrutiny, risking coverage for millions while igniting bipartisan tensions over fiscal and social impacts. 2 Commerce Drive Suite 100 Cranbury, NJ 08512 ...

The attempt to measure quality in health care isn’t new. It’s a decades-old phenomenon, driven by the demands of the private sector as well as Medicaid and Medicare.

A refreshed federal report shows the healthcare industry’s efforts to improve care quality is lagging, with only 44 percent of quality measures improving over the past two decades. The Agency ...

It's not easy for patients to know whether they're getting quality care from their doctor. Even medical professionals can't always judge this. Quality management in health care works to measure ...

A newly released report on the state of Minnesota’s health care quality shows a bit of a mixed performance last year but with one large takeaway: most quality measures are still below pre ...

CMS operates more than 20 quality programs focused on individual clinicians, certain health care settings such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, health insurers, and value-based entities ...