Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years.
A federal workgroup tasked with reviewing national quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services has delivered its biennial report, calling for the removal of three measures and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
As science races to address COVID-19, among the weaknesses highlighted by the pandemic is our inability to rapidly develop clinical guidelines, related decision supports, and quality measures to ...
Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, chief scientific officer of The National Quality Forum, explained that the 2 gaps that exist in quality measurement currently include data infrastructure and patient ...
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 ...
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Sheri Winsper, the senior vice president for quality measurement at the National Quality Forum, to discuss how the forum plans to devise national ...
There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to navigate this question.
This fact sheet accompanies a new Center for American Progress report on best practices to expand and improve access to contraception at the state level, covering common implementation challenges and ...