Healthcare quality issues are a typical legal issue. Healthcare quality issues are a typical legal issue. People who emphasize on serving others must address the ethical and social values. Policy ...

AI assistants and innovative health insurance plans are transforming how consumers and employers find their way to high-quality care.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses hierarchical modeling to stabilize its hospital quality star ratings by shrinking the performance of low-volume hospitals toward the ...

Patient safety events, especially preventable ones, are on the rise at healthcare organizations. Meanwhile, frontline staff are burned out, and the current fiscal environment is exerting pressure on ...

Hospitals receiving national quality awards showed better performance in selected outcomes variables compared with hospitals that had not received these awards. Objectives: To examine the differences ...

New research harnessed CMS data to show the connection between high-quality care and lower readmission rates. Researchers examined a hospitalwide readmissions cohort of more than 2.7 million Medicare ...

Accessing high-quality healthcare in the United States has become increasingly complex. While technological advances have fostered extraordinary innovation in medicine and digital record keeping, the ...

National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, ...

A recent Gallup poll revealed that Americans’ perception of the quality of healthcare in the U.S. is the lowest it’s been since Gallup began checking the trending data in 2001. 1. The poll found that ...