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 ...

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 ...

A provider, a payer, and an expert from an organization that endorses quality measures in healthcare participated in a panel discussion on measuring the quality of care in oncology. Linda Bosserman, ...

As someone who leads an integrated health care delivery system, this is a question I frequently find myself asking. The obvious answer, of course, is to develop measurements based on treatment ...

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 ...

Change in Neurocognitive Functioning After Treatment With Cranial Radiation in Childhood In a prospective study with repeated measures involving 28 oncologists, 286 cancer patients were randomly ...

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 ...