One way to improve performance measurement in healthcare is to move from process measures to outcome measures, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded report from the Urban Institute. The ...

Medical Care, Vol. 47, No. 12 (December 2009), pp. 1244-1250 (7 pages) Background: Health care process quality measures usually are designed by expert panels attempting to synthesize nuanced clinical ...

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 ...

Ambulatory surgery centers participating in the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting program will soon be required to begin reporting data for the process of care measure #ASC-8: Influenza ...

The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for ...

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 an ...

July 5, 2011 (Boston, MA) — Critical access hospitals (CAH) aren't required to report performance measure and quality-of-care data, so not a lot is widely known about how they're faring. It turns out ...

Employee evaluations measure your employees' performance; however, an ineffective performance evaluation can do more harm than good. Measuring the effectiveness of your evaluation process ensures that ...

MURRIETA —- The Murrieta City Council on Tuesday discussedways to implement three measures approved by voters this month thatwill affect how long elected officials can serve and how they andtop city ...