quality measures
CIGNA launches site offering doctor, hospital rankings
CIGNA has launched a national website ranking doctors and hospitals by cost and quality measures, along with providing its beneficiaries with several additional tools to help them obtain care. Not... Read more...
Feds to display hospital satisfaction ratings in newspaper ads
In an effort to put some money behind its philosophy, the federal government has budgeted about $1.9 million to put full-page ads in newspapers around the U.S. disclosing individual hospital... Read more...
Hospital collective works to reduce birth injuries
A group of 16 hospitals has come together to create seamless processes to avoid birth injuries to infants in risky situations. Right now, about three infants of every 1,000 are injured during birth,... Read more...
Case study: WI hospital wins Baldridge with tough standards
A Wisconsin health system has become one of five Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award winners by racking up a wide range of successes cutting across employee satisfaction, patient safety and... 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 challenges volume-based quality goals
To date, industry leaders like the Leapfrog Group have assumed that hospitals performing higher volumes of coronary artery bypass grafting were likely to offer better quality care for these... 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...
MA primary care MDs get mixed quality grades
A new report from a local quality organization suggests that while Massachusetts primary care physicians rank well when it comes to preventive care and management of chronic conditions, they're not... Read more...
Groups come together on MD performance reporting
Measuring performance is one of the toughest nuts the healthcare industry has to crack. But this time, some important stakeholders have at least come together to handle the problem as a team. Groups... Read more...
NQF develops coordination of care measures
The National Quality Forum plans to begin developing quality measures related to coordination of care over the next 15 months, a move that could help to boost the emerging trend toward giving... Read more...
