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Next month, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) will publish methodology that will allow consumers, health plans, provider organizations…
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If you’ve read Dr. Lisa Sanders’ “Diagnosis” column in The New York Times Magazine, you know the process of identifying…
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Not unexpectedly, ProPublica has published a response to the Rand Corporation’s recent 20-page critique of the journalism organization’s Surgeon Scorecard, a searchable database of…
California has embraced the Affordable Care Act in big way. It launched one of the first and most robust state-run…
Efforts to improve health care quality and safety are mostly missing one significant source of concern: diagnostic errors, according to…
Quality measures are good, right? We all want our doctors and hospitals to follow best practices and be held to…
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, created by the Affordable Care Act, is trying new ways of delivering health care and…
Announcements from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services last week on rules about bundled payments for hip and knee…
After we posted in May on issues concerning hospital patient satisfaction surveys, the Hastings Center, a Garrison, N.Y., research institute…
In June 2009, Atul Gawande wrote an influential New Yorker article, about the community of McAllen, Texas, which has some…