To accurately assess how well your business is performing, you need to develop some quantifiable measures, advises Skillmaker.com. Ideally, your measures will clearly identify those aspects of your ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Members of SHM's Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee delve into the mortality measurement and how hospitalists’ ...

The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) have introduced a comprehensive list of clinical performance measures intended to target meaningful gaps in care, and that ...

Through literature review and collaborative design, we propose the Focus, Activity, Statistic, Scale type, and Reference (FASStR) framework to provide a systematic approach to health care operation ...

This is the fourth post in a series about my new article, Prison Accountability and Performance Measures, which is in the current issue of the Emory Law Journal. In Monday’s post, I introduced the ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) have issued new performance and quality measures for the treatment of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI, abandoning some ...

Using the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS), the National Committee for Quality Assurance partners with more than 90% of the nation’s managed care organizations to collect, audit ...