Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Quality
The Global Outcomes Score
Achieving a high quality health care system is the holy grail in medicine these days. A novel way of viewing quality requires analysis of the reduction in risk of severe adverse events expected from health care interventions. We all can Continue Reading …
Converting financial incentives into quality
Pay-for-performance in health care seeks to correct the unconscionably low level of quality provided to some patients. In practice, achieving quality through financial incentives continues to prove a difficult endeavor. Pay-for-performance (P4P) in healthcare emerged as a result of two Continue Reading …
An Overview of Health Information Technology
Health information technology is expected to reduce costs, save the environment, and improve the quality of care. Some evidence exists supporting health IT as beneficial to processes of care; more evidence is needed on outcomes. The Health Information Technology for Continue Reading …
Meaningful Quality
The era of meaningful use of information technology has begun in medicine yet is still in its infancy. As electronic health records evolve alongside quality reporting, many expect health care to become safer and more effective. The of certified electronic Continue Reading …
Gaming the System
Process measures for quality are subject to unintended consequences such as system gaming. As we have seen in diabetes care, this quality measure for bronchitis appears to have been manipulated by clinicians as well. Conventional wisdom backed by extensive data Continue Reading …
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