WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, after a thorough review of nine core measure sets, the Core Quality Measures Collaborative (CQMC) announced updates to five sets. The updates include both the ...
Quality data is critical to informing public health actions. | The time has come for CMS to implement performance measures—or quantitative metrics—for public health and clinical data exchange, writes ...
The highest scorer in the nation in CMS’ Core Measures process-of-care program in 2009 was 235-bed Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., an affiliate of Community Health Systems, which operates 122 ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services remains acutely focused on patient harm and will introduce new measures addressing patient safety later this year, agency leaders said at an event in ...
Quality measurement in federal health care programs has been around since at least 2007, when CMS introduced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for ...