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 ...

Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years.

Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of healthcare quality. Physicians who fall short on quality measures now face financial penalties. But it might be quality measures, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A provider, a payer, and an expert from an organization that endorses quality measures in healthcare participated in a panel discussion on measuring the quality of care in oncology. Linda Bosserman, ...

Something special and worthy of note has been happening at the management end of health care. Quality measures for performance aren’t being stuck away on some dusty unused webpage. They’re being used ...

What metrics really matter to recruiters and hiring managers and to the companies that employ them? The truth is, as a hiring manager you may be meeting certain predetermined targets that certainly ...