The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Open School, which offers virtual education to students and healthcare professionals, has 13 courses on various aspects of safety and quality that ...

First, most of the focus and investment in quality metrics has been devoted to technical aspects of health care quality and driving clinical improvements in medical care (for example, hospitalwide ...

The recently published National Healthcare Quality Report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reveals that in 2009, while nearly two-thirds of 179 measures of health care ...

Measuring health care quality isn't nearly as straightforward as many think it is. I offer perspective on some of the gaps in current approaches to measuring healthcare quality.

The National Quality Forum has endorsed 64 measures that cover patient safety, cardiovascular care and other aspects of patient care. Skip to main content. BHR; ... healthcare systems and cancer care.

In the first few months of the pandemic, health care systems stopped providing nonurgent care. 26,27 For example, it was difficult to get a routine in-person eye exam for many months during the ...

Many players in the health care industry are evolving their business models and processes to address the member’s entire health journey.² Tens of billions of dollars are flowing annually into ...

Americans spend far more on health care than anywhere else in the world but we have the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries. A lot of that can be explained by the unique aspects ...

Experts stressed on focusing on quality in all aspects of healthcare to improve patient care services at the national healthcare conclave here on Wednesday (March 4). Representational Image PUNE ...

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates from the podcast Code Switch talks with journalist Linda Villarosa about how COVID exposed racial disparities in all aspects of the health care system.

Racial bias still affects many aspects of health care. By Austin Frakt Racial discrimination has shaped so many American institutions that perhaps it should be no surprise that health care is ...

Allen Daugird, MD, MBA, is president of UNC Physicians & Associates at UNC Health Care System and the new Triangle Physician Network, which was recently created to operate physician practices UNC ...