Medicare’s approach to quality assurance has significantly changed over the years. Starting with cost monitoring measures, it now ensures Medicare beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, and ...

In the world of digital healthcare, remote patient monitoring (RPM) has quickly emerged as one of the most effective tools for improving patient care. By one estimate, 30 million Americans will be ...

The idea behind artificial intelligence assurance labs – where large language models and other AI technologies can be simulated and tested – is that they can improve the efficacy and fairness of ...

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article. GAO, Medicare: Increased HMO Oversight Could Improve Quality and Access to Care , Pub. no. GAO/HEHS-95-155 ( Washington : U.S.

The retiring leader stresses the need for quality to be embedded in healthcare’s systems as a business imperative. On its website, the National Committee for Quality Assurance notes: “Before NCQA, ...

This Forefront article synthesizes lessons from widely adopted health care quality metrics to inform future quality metric design and development. The evolution of health care quality metrics over the ...

Although there has been a slight downward trend in the prescription of benzodiazepines (depressants that relieve anxiety, muscle spasms, produce sedation and reduce seizures) among older adults over ...

Utilizing the Health Insurance Disparities Index for assessment, the authors found that New York’s Medicaid health maintenance organizations (HMOs) outperformed Medicaid HMOs nationally in addressing ...

Drexel University’s Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality and research compliance consistent with best practices for quality, integrity, ...

This E-Learning module has been designed to support medical physicists and other health professionals in ensuring optimal performance of imaging instruments. It is a tool for continuing education and ...