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...

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 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...

Public and private payers are developing hospital care pay for performance (P4P) initiatives as part of a broader national movement to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care services. These initiatives augment or reduce payments to a hospital on the basis of its performance on...

This study evaluated demonstration projects that aimed to expand access to needed pharmaceuticals through comprehensive pharmacy services and improve the health of the mostly low-income population served by HRSA-supported health centers. Researchers examined 18 networks that collaborated with a...

This study evaluated demonstration projects that aimed to expand access to needed pharmaceuticals through comprehensive pharmacy services and improve the health of the mostly low-income population served by HRSA-supported health centers. Researchers examined 18 networks that collaborated with a...

This study evaluated demonstration projects that aimed to expand access to needed pharmaceuticals through comprehensive pharmacy services and improve the health of the mostly low-income population served by HRSA-supported health centers. Researchers examined 18 networks that collaborated with a...

This report summarizes the evaluation findings for the Electronic Health Records Demonstration (EHRD), funded and implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A large proportion of practices (43 percent) were unable or unwilling to meet program requirements to continue...