Ensuring excellent quality and outcomes is the essential goal of medical care. To achieve it, a multitude of quality metrics have been added to clinicians’ work. They include things such as ...

The United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation on Earth, yet somehow ranks embarrassingly low when it ...

The study found no evidence that geographically limited disasters significantly reduced annual quality performance scores, highlighting the resilience of these programs. The main finding was that we ...

Large language models, a form of artificial intelligence, are generating a lot of hype in healthcare circles, primarily because of their potential to transform and improve various aspects of ...

The rising frequency of natural disasters due to climate change could make health plans more susceptible to significant negative effects, according to Maria DeYoreo, PhD, of RAND Corporation. In the ...

In healthcare, quality reporting is often treated like a tax: Inevitable, complex and disconnected from frontline care. But what if it could be something else entirely? For decades, frameworks like ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is requesting nominations for children’s healthcare quality measures, according to an announcement published in the Federal Register. AHRQ is seeking ...

The Measures Application Partnership is considering approximately 500 quality measures to recommend to HHS for inclusion in federal healthcare payment and reporting programs, according to an AHA News ...

A newly released report on the state of Minnesota’s health care quality shows a bit of a mixed performance last year but with one large takeaway: most quality measures are still below pre-pandemic ...

The shift towards value-based care (VBC) is transforming healthcare, placing quality measures and prioritizing improved patient outcomes at the center of reimbursement and performance. For practice ...

A Government Accountability Office report found failure to align quality measures across payers impeded providers’ ability to develop quality improvements for value-based care models, according to ...