The following quality improvement activities for office-based anesthesia are recommended by the American Society of Anesthesiologists‘ Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for ...

There was little increase in nurses’ participation in quality improvement activities from 2004 to 2008, according to a study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality and reported by the Robert ...

Physicians and healthcare managers are already preparing for sweeping changes in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, known as MACRA. The law combines many existing value-based programs ...

Implementing an effective and sustainable continuous improvement (CI) program is hard work. It typically requires dedicated effort from multiple operations and CI leaders who, let’s face it, start out ...

Editor’s note: Health Affairs will also publish a health policy brief on Nonprofit Hospitals' Community Benefit Requirements in early 2016. The requirement that nonprofit hospitals earn their ...

Process improvement is about identifying and addressing inefficiencies that waste resources and add cost. Analysis is carried out to determine which processes and process steps are value-adding or non ...

A national survey of physicians elicits beliefs regarding how the Merit-based Incentive Payment System domains drive value. Objectives: To understand physician perspectives about drivers of value ...

This article will outline and differentiate between the two primary approaches to increasing work efficiency. The discussion will start with a general focus on the topic and then at the end tie-in to ...

Federal value-based payment programs require primary care practices to conduct quality improvement activities, informed by the electronic reports on clinical quality measures that their electronic ...

New rule elevates medical-dental integration and highlights the role of primary care in oral health outcomes Smiles for ...