Covered California and Health Net’s novel data exchange initiative significantly improved quality measurement and potentially reduced costs by more than $640,000. The burden of collecting data and ...

2025 State of Digital Quality Report From Applause Reveals Sharp Increase in AI-Powered Functional Testing, but Human Involvement Remains Critical To offset risks, a growing number of organizations ...

CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In ...

A lot of attention is paid to the number of jobs in the economy, but a new report tackles the key questions around what makes ...

Columbus City Utilities has released its annual water quality report, finding that the city’s drinking water met all federal and state standards last year. The local utility is required to issue a ...

Throughout the healthcare system, initiatives to promote patient safety, improve outcomes and report consistently on quality metrics are gaining considerable momentum. Many states have required ...

Report cards represent one of the most publicly visible aspects of hospitals' quality improvement efforts, and they are not without controversy. Media coverage often overreacts to low "grades" given ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, hospitals and health systems will be required to report data on 76 measures for CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program to receive full Medicare reimbursement in 2015 ...

A new report has revealed air quality in Jersey has continued to improve year on year. Natural Environment's water and air ...

A new report from the environmental nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore shows that water quality in the Inner Harbor and its surrounding watershed has slightly declined over the past decade, despite major ...