Knowing quality is, therefore, of utmost importance for each of us. At the risk of oversimplification, let’s define three broad measurement areas in today’s healthcare: (1) Metrics about ...

We are at an inflection point in our efforts to measure the quality of U.S. health care. Most medical professionals accept that rigorous quality measurement is essential to improving care and ...

In fact, quality measurement in health care has become an industry unto itself. Hospitals and health care systems across the country pay a lot of money to have their quality of care scrutinized ...

Editor’s note: The full list of authors for the Core Quality Measures Collaborative Workgroup is included at the end of the blog post. In today’s health care system, physicians are faced with ...

Margaret "Peggy" O'Kane is the founder and president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She started the ...

“Less is more,” the old adage states. But quality measurement in US health care has trended relentlessly toward “more.” Often, this results from the best of intentions. Payers and policy ...

has reported on health care quality and disparities, 4 utilizing more than 250 measures from national data assessing structures, processes, and outcomes across health care settings. Some state ...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance is emphasizing follow-up care, particularly for hypertension and breast cancer assessments, with its newest measure additions to the Healthcare ...

It may seem somewhat contradictory to proclaim the many bountiful benefits of our health care system, yet at the same time suggest that we subsidize it too much and “everyone else” must be ...

with additional measures added on, depending on the population or setting. CMS operates more than 20 quality programs focused on individual clinicians, certain health care settings such as ...

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) legislation required a core set of recommended health care quality measures to be identified for voluntary use by State Medicaid ...

We thus recommend that greenhouse-gas–related measurement and reporting should be a requirement for all health care delivery organizations (HCOs), broadly defined to include inpatient ...