Wearables now flag everything from irregular heartbeats to dips in blood oxygen, but the data is only as useful as a person's ...

Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal ...

Objective Quality improvement (QI) practices and scholarship are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability given the negative health outcomes caused by the ecological crisis, as well as ...

The all-or-nothing nature of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality audits means nursing homes could face reductions in reimbursement – and, in the case of hybrid measures such ...

Objectives With the growing adoption of virtual consultations in primary care, the need for tailored metrics to evaluate their safety became increasingly urgent. This systematic review seeks to ...

If hospitals do not blend their procurement decisions with overall performance strategy, they risk patient harm and losing CMS accreditation, according to a Feb. 24 article from Vizient, a healthcare ...

Beyond being a familiar adage, “quality over quantity” lies at the heart of quality-based investing. Rather than concentrating on the largest stocks, quality indices systematically tilt toward ...

You can’t bring your business into the future when your KPIs are stuck in the past. by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez We are living in a new era, what I call the “transformation age.” This is a period of ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), a term coined by the National Health Safety Network in 2005, refer to infections that arise in any inpatient or outpatient setting and appear within 48 hours ...

CISOs still struggle to prove the value of their security programs using metrics that their business leaders so desperately seek. For most organizations, cybersecurity has always been seen as a cost ...