Outcomes Monitoring

Outcomes Monitoring involves near-concurrent tracking of important process performance variables to give an early indication of care process effectiveness to support management decisions prior to the availability of rigorous evaluation results.

What should we do when there is a clash between two noble goals: consumer transparency and quality improvement? Five proposed principles.

6 Comments / Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Outcomes Monitoring, Quality Measurement, Satisfaction Measurement / Dr. Ward

For many years, I’ve been following and writing blog posts about one of my heroes, Don Berwick, a physician leader, Obama-era CMS Administrator and one of most eloquent, persistent and effective advocates for quality improvement in health care. In a recent viewpoint article in JAMA, Dr. Berwick and two physician co-authors, Thom Meyer (from Duke)

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Dr. Ward to speak at 5th Annual Predictive Modeling Summit, November 8-9, 2011, Washington, DC

1 Comment / Model-based Reporting, Outcomes Monitoring, Risk Adjustment / Dr. Ward

The 5th Annual Predictive Modeling Summit is described by conference organizers as the “leading forum on predictive analytics applied to key health care functions, settings and populations.” Dr. Ward will be giving a presentation entitled “Using Intervention Models and Predictive Models to Optimize Patient Selection for Care Management in ACOs” at 1pm on November 9,

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