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Partnership for Patients
The Administration has launched the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs, a new public-private partnership that will help improve the quality, safety and affordability of healthcare for all Americans. The Partnership for Patients brings together leaders of major hospitals, … Continue reading
Retooling of Paper-Based Measures
Collecting and reporting healthcare performance data is now a complex, time-consuming and manual process for hospitals and physicians. Measure specifications are usually designed with the assumption that much of the clinical data will be “abstracted” by humans from documentation in … Continue reading
Keeping Tabs on Quality
Welcome to the first post by the HIMSS NQF (National Quality Forum Taskforce. Our goal here is to give you timely information about NQF activities and projects, especially those related to health information technology. The newly established HIMSS NQF Taskforce operates under the HIMSS Cost, Quality and Safety … Continue reading




