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 ...

Value in healthcare today is a reality that organizations must understand to control costs while enhancing quality of services. The challenge facing healthcare organizations is finding innovative ways ...

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, ...

As the new manufacturing engineer for the stapler production line, you find yourself shifting through quality data to get a better understanding of the defect rates involved. One of the reasons you ...

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 ...

I felt compelled to write the following article due to a division of opinion that has risen between several professionals within the quality assurance (QA) community and me on the importance of ...

Jason C. Goldwater, MA, MPA, senior director, National Quality Forum, explained that quality metrics exist for 3 purposes: to ensure the best science and practices are being utilized, to set the bar ...

Quality metrics are an objective, verifiable number. Unlike subjective data, the number is both quantifiable and can be confirmed. The potential downside to quality metrics is that the data may be ...

Table 1 provides a taxonomy of the most commonly used video quality metrics. On the extreme left is subjective Mean Opinion Score (MOS) computed with actual viewers rating videos on a scale from 1 to ...

Half of primary care physicians across the country view the increasing use of quality-of-care metrics and penalties for unnecessary hospitalizations as potentially troubling for patient care, ...

Data-driven decisions require data that is trustworthy, available, and timely. Upping the dataops game is a worthwhile way to offer business leaders reliable insights. Measuring quality of any kind ...

Data quality in the modern economy, where data-driving action is critical to business success, can no longer be perceived as mere tech detail. Business leaders increasingly use data to make strategic ...