Quality Metrics

Aug 24 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

For physicians, data sharing with the government is becoming essential and will impact how they get paid, receive bonuses or are penalized. While the data collection process is crucial, Niall Berman, director of the CMS Office of Information Products and Analysis, concedes it’s fraught with uncertainty among providers

May 07 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The latest proposed rules for how federal payers would reimburse hospitals in years to come call for important changes in the way quality is measured. But you wouldn’t know it unless you dug through the 1,313-page proposal for Inpatient Prospective Payment System rules.

Jan 31 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

More doctors are inquiring about their patients’ pain, difficulty accomplishing everyday activities, embarrassment about a condition and other issues that physicians traditionally haven’t considered.

Jan 04 2012

Federal Register

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

Federal Register: Initial Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid-Eligible Adults

Jan 03 2012

NationalJournal.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In-Hospital Mortality Rates Not an Accurate Measure of Care Quality

Dec 30 2011

BNA.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CMS Seeking Input From Medicare Plans On Changes to Star Rating Methodology

Nov 08 2011

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

It wasn’t until informatics pros and clinicians figured out how to calculate and graphically present a spectrum of clinical status measures for immediate action that quality measures became worthwhile and patient-care results dramatically improved

Oct 19 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The federal government’s efforts to promote Medicare’s new and highly touted Star Quality Ratings for health plans is so far not reaching most of its target audience.

Oct 06 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Quality indicators are supposed to encourage better health care. But in the case of the elderly, they may lead to unintended harms

Sep 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals with some of the most prominent national reputations – such as those held up as a model for health reform including the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins University – are not on the Joint Commission’s list.

Aug 22 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

NQF Endorses 41 Standards of Pediatric Care

Aug 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A rule proposed by the CMS to allow Medicare and private sector claims data to be used to produce public reports that evaluate the performance of physicians and other healthcare providers raised a number of red flags

Jul 20 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Neonatal intensive care units around the country are participating in quality programs to improve care for the most vulnerable babies

Jun 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The National Quality Forum board has announced that it has approved for endorsement a list of 29 serious reportable events in healthcare.

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