As the value-based care reimbursement environment grows, there is an increasing interest in linking additional physician compensation to the achievement of quality outcomes as measured by certain ...

Explore innovative strategies for enhancing population health through quality measures, clinician collaboration, and ...

Innovative outcomes-based metrics for the emergency department boarding population will be needed to avert threats to patient safety that are inadvertently caused by the adoption of time-based quality ...

Panelists discuss how quality metrics should focus on keeping patients out of hospitals through core medical therapies, measuring all-cause hospitalizations and days spent at home in the community, ...

A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University set out to calculate how much time and money were devoted to measuring and reporting quality metric data to government and national healthcare ...

Existing diabetes quality measures in the U.S. do not adequately improve the quality of care or outcomes, according to new research published in Health Affairs. The burden of diabetes falls ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Existing diabetes quality metrics do not currently help patients improve their health and diabetes quality measurement must be improved through the adoption of new measures and modernization, ...

Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace officials are hoping to get more plans into value-based care arrangements as regulators hope to not just build on getting people covered, according to federal ...

The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have issued the first-ever performance and quality metrics for the treatment of patients with valvular and structural heart ...

Gastroenterologists and endoscopists are beginning to focus more on quality metrics to provide evidence-based treatment for patients. “From a quality standpoint, measuring outcomes is important ...