Posted by: Stanley Quan on: March 28, 2010
Iowa Hospital Association opposes plan to publish quality reports “The Iowa Hospital Association is objecting to the idea of having a state agency collect and publish information about the quality of services performed by hospitals and other health-care providers. Consumer advocates have pushed for mandatory disclosure of health-care quality data, including infection rates at hospitals. [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: February 25, 2010
CMS sets up two healthcare test pilots “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set up two healthcare test pilots – one in North Carolina and one in Indiana – to show how healthcare quality is affected by the exchange of electronic heath records across multiple payers and providers in the two regions. The [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: February 25, 2010
Web site allows you to compare hospitals, pharmacies, nursing homes and insurance Louisiana State officials have launched a new Web site where you can compare cost, quality and performance of local hospitals, nursing homes, prescription drugs and health-insurance plans. The Web site, www.HealthFinderLA.gov, was launched by the state this week.
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: February 4, 2010
New place to compare measures “Louisiana consumers now can compare the costs and quality performance measures of hospitals and health care facilities against each other. Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state health department Tuesday launched a new Web site at http://www.HealthFinderLA.gov that allows people to compare the patient safety measures and prices of hospitals, nursing [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: February 2, 2010
Local Efforts to Transform American Health Care “This special report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative chronicles the program’s ambitious progress. AF4Q is the Foundation’s signature effort to improve the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: December 10, 2009
Portal shows the best place to get medical care “Last month, the Illinois state Department of Public Health released a new website to examine how hospitals stack up against one another. The Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide has been so popular, it crashed the first day after getting 11,000 hits, said Public Health spokeswoman [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: November 21, 2009
Report finds increased reliance on home-based services and continued quality challenges “The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) today unveiled a new Web site rating thousands of the state’s long term care providers on a wide range of quality of care measures — information that will help consumers make better choices and focus providers on improving quality. [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: November 21, 2009
National Quality Forum (NQF) has releases new data sets “The National Quality Forum (NQF) has released new data sets that identify the specific care quality measures that health information technology (IT) should be able to capture in all health care settings, Government Health IT reports. Designed to simplify the process of comparing health care providers’ [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: November 16, 2009
Article from The Wisconsin State Journal “A major new database of patient information was formed by insurers, employers and health-care providers in Wisconsin. The database, which reveals how the cost of care, adherence to proper screening and other factors vary by region and doctor group, will encourage physicians to reduce waste and give patients the [...]
Posted by: Stanley Quan on: October 20, 2009
Opinion by Bruce A. Boissonnault “In health care reform, what you don’t know can hurt you. Quality of care varies widely from provider to provider, and access to objective information about those providers remains highly restricted in the United States. That may explain why U.S. health care quality results are the worst among developed countries, [...]
