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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

One dimension that both rating systems share is the migration of quality measurement from the local and institutional level to the national stage. Historically, health care quality measurement has ...

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 ...

CMS also is placing a focus on digital quality measures and reporting based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, with a goal of easier data transmission between different ...

"Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?," could shape future research. She also explores how the increasing frequency of natural disasters due to climate change ...

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 ...