Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. This article notes that the executives also report increased...

The National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative (NVHRI)—recently renamed the Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information—is a nationwide, collaborative effort to make the quality of hospital care more transparent to professionals and consumers. This report...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) operates the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program to ensure and improve the quality of health care for Medicare beneficiaries. This report presents the results of an independent evaluation of the ninth scope of work, QIO Program,...

In April 2005, the 39;47 and the Health Quality Alliance launched Hospital Compare, a web-based tool that helps acute care and critical access hospitals publish quality data for 17 clinical measures on heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. Approximately 4,200 hospitals across the country...

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. This article notes that the executives also report increased...

In April 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Health Quality Alliance launched Hospital Compare, a web-based tool that helps acute care and critical access hospitals publish quality data for 17 clinical measures on heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. Approximately...

The National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative (NVHRI)—recently renamed the Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information—is a nationwide, collaborative effort to make the quality of hospital care more transparent to professionals and consumers. This report...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) operates the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program to ensure and improve the quality of health care for Medicare beneficiaries. This report presents the results of an independent evaluation of the ninth scope of work, QIO Program,...

Presents findings from a study designed to look at how some of the nation's high-performing HMOs have achieved their success. Notes that delivering high-quality care is a driving force for nearly all of the plans studied, as is a culture of respect for clinicians. For printed copies call The...

Population health management programs—programs targeted to a defined population that use a variety of individual, organizational, and societal interventions to improve health outcomes—are increasingly being looked on by large employers as a promising practice for improving health...