The cycle of increasing healthcare expense and passing cost on to workers is not inevitable. Business leaders have options to ...

The growing availability of low-cost air quality sensors is helping people across the world track air pollution.

The quality and cost of Medicare coverage depend on where you live, according to new research. The Commonwealth Fund, a ...

Health-related quality of life is a psychometrically sound outcome measure for high-cost, high-need populations. Unlike health care spending, it does not exhibit mean reversion. Objectives: To ...

Cost of Quality Management in Supply Chains encompasses the systematic evaluation of expenses incurred in maintaining and improving product quality across multiple tiers of supply networks. It ...

Should a colonoscopy cost nearly eight times more at one hospital than another? Why hospital pricing is less about quality ...

Hospitals are built on the promise of safe, effective, and compliant care, with a strong quality management function at the heart of that promise. But even as organizations prioritize quality ...

Editor's Note: Health Affairs has recently published two studies looking at the association between hospital costs and quality. The first, by Ashish Jha and coauthors, appeared in our May-June issue, ...

Savings can’t trump the quality of patient care — the caveat that starts any discussion about cost-cutting in the healthcare industry. But with patient volume on the rise, the enactment of the Patient ...

At the first PAVE/X Conference in San Antonio this past February, I must have hit a real nerve for many contractors and field leaders. When asking leaders if they had a challenge with workers making ...