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Illinois launches healthcare quality data site
Though the evidence continues to be contradictory as to whether report cards and healthcare data have much impact on quality--or whether consumers even use such data--public policymakers continue to... Read more...
CMS: 99 percent of hospitals to get full update for Outpatient Reporting Program
There's good news from the CMS for hospitals who participated in its Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program: 99 percent of them submitted information correctly and will receive the full... Read more...
MA puts hospital costs, ratings on the web
Like a growing number of its peers, the state of Massachusetts is taking transparency to a whole new level. Residents now have access to a website that allows them to directly compare the cost and... Read more...
PA senators work to save PHC4
If things remain as they are, it seems that the nationally-recognized healthcare data monitoring agency known as the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) will die on November 30.... Read more...
CMS will pay more than $36M in quality reporting
CMS has announce that it will pay out more than $36 million in incentives money to providers who reported data on quality of care delivered between July 2007 and December 2007 as part of its... Read more...
Joint Commission releases new inpatient psych measures
The Joint Commission has released a new set of seven inpatient psychiatric measures for use with the group's Oryx performance-measurement requirements. Eventually, the data will appear on the... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Plavix copycat on the rise in Europe; Hospital bills for services to dead patient; and much more...
> Pharma giants Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb are preparing to battle a copycat generic to its Plavix brand. Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Consumers trust web health info, but not quality data
A new study suggests that while consumers are comfortable using the web to search for health information, they're not as comfortable with sites that provide quality data. In fact, they trust health... Read more...
Report: Quality of care increases slowly
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality concludes that healthcare quality improvements are slowing. The agency, which has been compiling quality data for five years,... Read more...
Study: One of 15 hospitalized children harmed
A study using new methodology for detecting errors points up an alarming discrepancy between the level of potential harm children faced in hospitals, and what may actually be happening. The study,... Read more...
