Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Scores show outcomes, but they don’t reveal how a data system is built, tested and operated, or whether the data meets the ...

The United Nations has a new plan for weighing economic gains alongside health and environmental progress. But consensus is ...

Objective Quality improvement (QI) practices and scholarship are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability given the negative health outcomes caused by the ecological crisis, as well as ...

The all-or-nothing nature of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality audits means nursing homes could face reductions in reimbursement – and, in the case of hybrid measures such ...

If hospitals do not blend their procurement decisions with overall performance strategy, they risk patient harm and losing CMS accreditation, according to a Feb. 24 article from Vizient, a healthcare ...

Measuring the quality of healthcare has become increasingly important, with surgery not exempt from such evaluation. As technological opportunities and novel developments broaden the range and ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), a term coined by the National Health Safety Network in 2005, refer to infections that arise in any inpatient or outpatient setting and appear within 48 hours ...

CISOs still struggle to prove the value of their security programs using metrics that their business leaders so desperately seek. For most organizations, cybersecurity has always been seen as a cost ...

Panelists discuss how quality metrics should focus on keeping patients out of hospitals through core medical therapies, measuring all-cause hospitalizations and days spent at home in the community, ...