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 ...

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, ...

Hospitals and healthcare providers in rural areas are faced with a number of challenges when it comes to measuring quality performance and optimizing quality improvement efforts, according to a report ...

This article recommends quality measures for exchange health plans and strategies to increase the availability of quality results for public reporting. For the quality measures included in the federal ...

The authors note that metric-based quality assessment can serve as a common language between developers, regulators, and users. By grounding quality claims in observable metrics, organizations can ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in conjunction with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) established a new measure, “Healthy Days ...

Semiconductor IP reuse can yield a 2x improvement in design productivity for semiconductor companies. However, with these startling productivity gains come integration pain. Why? Semiconductor IP is ...

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 ...

Much effort has been devoted to understanding opioid misuse and overdose, and to the growing contribution of illicit opioid use to the measurable decline in life expectancy in the United States. While ...

Sasha Shunk spends story time with the children in her home-based child care program in Portland, Maine. Credit: Courtesy Sasha Shunk The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...