Although patients with a primary mental health condition make up about 10 percent of pediatric hospitalizations, there is little research exploring care quality for these patients in hospital settings ...

Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years.

Accessing high-quality healthcare in the United States has become increasingly complex. While technological advances have fostered extraordinary innovation in medicine and digital record keeping, the ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is requesting nominations for children’s healthcare quality measures, according to an announcement published in the Federal Register. AHRQ is seeking ...

Large language models, a form of artificial intelligence, are generating a lot of hype in healthcare circles, primarily because of their potential to transform and improve various aspects of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of ...

Amino, a San Francisco-based startup that uses claims data to help consumers choose a doctor, announced today that it now has access to Medicare claims data and has been certified by the Centers for ...

1. These are Forbes’ first-ever hospital ratings. Why is Forbes entering this space now? Healthcare quality can vary dramatically among hospitals. The differences between high-quality facilities and ...

ASC quality performance showed mixed results in 2024, according to new data from the MedPAC. Several outcome measures tracked under the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting program remained ...

A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine ® experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its ...

The following article was written by Ann O’Neill, RN, MBA/HCM, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health.By now, almost everyone in the ASC industry is aware of the new CMS quality ...

More than a third of New Jersey's 79 hospitals have received two stars or less in the latest ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Only four hospitals received five stars, the ...