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 ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

Prevention and Management of Osteoradionecrosis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy: ISOO-MASCC-ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights Oncology is a complex clinical ...

Skilled nursing facilities have an additional tool to measure their own quality improvement efforts under a new change to the quality measures rating domain. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

At the 9th annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, David Shapiro, MD, CASC, partner at Ambulatory Surgery Company, shared tips on how to effectively measure and ...

The committee believes child and adolescent health is important in and of itself—as a measure of a society’s values and capabilities—and as a direct determinant of subsequent productivity and later ...

The quality-measurement movement began more than 20 years ago and has resulted in transparent quality-performance information, accountability, and improvements. At the same time, proliferation of ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

Ajay Prasad is the CEO of GMR Web Team, a full-service healthcare digital marketing agency focused on patient acquisition and retention. In healthcare, patient satisfaction isn't just a feel-good ...