Health Care Quality – Page 36 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 03 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Professional on-site interpreters in the emergency department greatly improve patient and physician satisfaction, and might improve efficiencies and outcomes

Jul 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Last week the nation’s largest health insurers received a letter from the AMA and 46 state medical societies that sharply criticized the accuracy and reliability of the cost-profiling mechanisms that many payers use to rate and tier physicians.

Jul 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Medical journals and federal public policy documents are sounding a refrain: too many doctors are ordering too many expensive, unnecessary and possibly cancer-provoking tests

Jul 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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AHRQ’s annual release of state-by-state quality data now has data on health insurance, including healthcare quality categorized by private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and the uninsured

Jul 28 2010

Process Measures and Quality Improvement

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A study in JAMA suggests that process-of-care quality measures, which are frequently used for bonus or penalty reimbursement programs, may have little real relationship to ultimate health outcomes.

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Jul 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The decision to admit as inpatient is a complex medical judgment that can only be made after a physician has taken into consideration a number of clinical and safety factors

Jul 26 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Wherever there is third-party payment, the goal of innovation is to produce more products that qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient outcomes are only marginal. Wherever there is no third-party reimbursement, innovators are focused on ways to lower cost and raise quality.

Jul 26 2010

eHealthNews.eu

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The NEUGRID – neuroscientists could use the grid-based research e-Infrastructure to identify neurodegenerative disease markers through the analysis of 3D magnetic resonance brain images

Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Health plan systems that score physicians on how carefully they control costs misclassify or are “woefully inaccurate” up to 66% of the time.

Jul 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Doctor groups criticized growing efforts by health plans to steer patients toward certain physicians based on cost or quality, arguing in a letter to insurers that the rankings may be unreliable and unfair

Jul 09 2010

Boston Globe

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released data yesterday that for the first time show how well hospitals care for patients on nine different measures of outpatient care

Jul 01 2010

The US Health System Stinks…Or Does It?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The Commonwealth Fund issues one of its regular reports designed to demonstrate how bad the US health system is compared to those of other developed countries. Unfortunately, the report is…

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Jun 30 2010

Commonwealth Fund

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

Commonwealth Fund: Based on analysis of OECD health data from 2008, the United States continues to differ markedly from other countries on a number of health system measures.

Jun 30 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The PPACA requires CMS to develop a plan to move toward integrating the reporting measures under PQRI and the electronic health records meaningful use incentive program of ARRA

Jun 30 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A survey finds that regardless of their specialty, physicians say that liability worries lead to the use of unnecessary tests and procedures

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