Continuous improvement is a core tenet of the quality enterprise, and measurement is necessary to gauge improvement. Therefore, there is a growing emphasis on measurement throughout the healthcare ...

An introduction to the Joslin Clinical Analytic Tool, a new diabetes measure developed to adjust for the variety in patient mix and better inform clinicians which interventions will work best. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of ...

Less than 2 decades after publication of the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, quality ...

There is a strong emphasis today on quality measures in healthcare. One measure, known as "patient-reported outcomes" (PROs), offers a status report of a patient's health, not his or her satisfaction ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Software quality, as Churchill ...

We rate Uber drivers, restaurants, Amazon delivery, and much more, but when it comes to our own health experience, we often have little to no data. That’s especially scary because the business model ...

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 ...

The concept of quality culture and how to enforce it are being debated by regulators and industry, says Siegfried Schmitt, vice president, Technical at Parexel. Q: Various presenters at recent ...

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