While the science of quality measurements is still in its infancy, Jennifer Malin, MD, staff vice president, Clinical Strategy, Anthem, said these metrics have allowed her and her team to open the ...
Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...
Six Sigma provides a framework for measuring process performance and making improvements to better meet customer needs. Although full-scale Six Sigma implementations are usually limited to large ...
At its core business process management is the administrative activities aimed at (1) defining a process, (2) establishing responsibilities, (3) evaluating process performance and (4) identifying ...
Quality measures (QMs) are performance tools for health plans and clinicians that are intended to assess and influence the quality and quantity of delivered health care. When QMs are thoughtfully ...
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Performance on Medicare Star Ratings medication adherence measures is significantly tied to performance on the intermediate outcome and statin process measures. Objectives: To assess the interrelation ...
Every company has issues — things that go bump in the night. When mistakes happen (both system and human), people tend to want to play the blame game. This is because, as a business grows, more people ...
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