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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of ...

Quality measurement has been around for nearly 2 decades and in that time measures have evolved and also proliferated to the point of placing considerable burden on physicians and health systems. New ...

The National Association of ACOs is the latest to respond to CMS electronic quality measure goals. Which challenge to tackle first in digital quality reporting? The National Association of ACOs ...

Saxton will lead NCQA's Quality Solutions Group, strengthening federal collaboration to drive health transformation ...

The following article was written by Ann O’Neill, RN, MBA/HCM, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health.By now, almost everyone in the ASC industry is aware of the new CMS quality ...

The concepts of patient engagement and shared decision-making may not be entirely new, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently ramped up its focus on these initiatives. For ...

Skilled nursing facilities have an additional tool to measure their own quality improvement efforts under a new change to the quality measures rating domain. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to ...