Quality Reporting Not a Priority For Hospital Boards
Health Affairs, The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere, recently provided results on how hospitals prioritize reporting quality information to the public. Based on the results it is quite low on the list of things to accomplish.
We surveyed a nationally representative sample of board chairs of 1,000 U.S. hospitals to understand their expertise, perspectives, and [...]
Vanderbilthealth.com: Great Example of Quality Reporting
While at the Greystone Internet Healthcare Conference I had the opportunity to listen in on Vanderbilt Medical Center’s Quality Measures presentation. The presentation was interesting and their examples showed how a large medical center can truly explain quality measures to patients. They explained how they engaged with and surveyed many patients asking them what they [...]
Keep Quality Measures On Your Site
One other observation we had about quality measure reporting on hospital websites is the amount of hospitals that force people to go somewhere else to get the information. We found in many cases they make visitors to their site click down several levels to get to the “Quality” section and force them to leave the [...]
Being Up Front with Hospital Quality Measures
It is odd that many, actually most, hospitals hide their quality information from patients. When we die our research of America’s top hospitals we found that many of them have quality data available on their site but for the most part it was nearly impossible to find. We did come across a few cases where [...]
Hospital Collabortion Saves Lives and Money
Premier Inc. announced today that their QUEST program has saved more than 8,000 lives and $577 million in costs in one year, and that is only with 32 participating hospitals. If non-participating hospitals would have joined in they could have saved 52,760 lives. Does anyone see a problem here? Nearly 53,000 people died last year [...]
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