Our ongoing work with CMS includes new measure development, research on hospital quality including evaluation of trends, disparities and geographic variation and communications with stakeholders about ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

An exploration of potential negative effects from delays in measure maintenance when changes in clinical evidence affect measure use found that delays may affect patient care and outcomes. To be ...

On July 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released its first-ever nationally standardized Home- and Community-Based Services (“HCBS”) quality measure set to encourage ...

The time is ripe to reexamine what the past 15 years of investment in Medicaid quality measurements has yielded and to identify opportunities to better measure what matters to Medicaid members. In ...

January 14, 2019, 12:04 pm Sheri Porter – The AAFP has released a new position paper aimed at helping steer the future development and use of quality measures in initiatives related to practice ...

Feb. 16, 2023, Cindy Borgmeyer — CMS has taken a step toward reducing administrative burden for physicians by launching an initiative to standardize and better align measures used to report quality ...

Prevention and Management of Osteoradionecrosis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy: ISOO-MASCC-ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights Oncology is a complex clinical ...

The U.S. healthcare industry is nearing a new era of interoperability that will transform not only how patient data is exchanged, but how it’s ultimately used to improve care. The Trusted Exchange ...

This is part one of an excerpt from Chapter 4: Data Quality and Measurement, from the book Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement: A Data Quality Assessment Framework by Laura ...

To assess is to "evaluate or estimate the nature, ability or quality" of something, or to "calculate or estimate its value or price." Assess comes from the Latin verb assidere, meaning "to sit by." As ...