According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, outpatient process measures need a fair balance between measures for underuse and overuse of clinical services. At an attempt to improve ...

It costs physician practices in the U.S. billions of dollars and hundreds of hours each year to report quality measures. But the American Medical Group Association says that process could be ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The full list of authors for the Core Quality Measures Collaborative Workgroup is included at the end of the blog post. In today’s health care system, physicians are faced with an ...

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Republican-led legislatures are mounting an increasingly fierce battle to curb the ability of citizens and other lawmakers to place ballot measures — a move progressive groups say is explicitly aimed ...

Already in 2023, Republican-controlled legislatures across the country have re-doubled their efforts to restrict the democratic process. In Missouri, House Republicans passed a bill that would require ...

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 ...

The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for ...

Once again, North Dakotans will vote on whether we want to change our initiated measure process. Measure 2 in November 2024 proposes restrictions on constitutional measures that are initiated by ...