National Quality Forum news and information

Virtua, a four-hospital system serving southern New Jersey, is so deeply committed to information technology that when it opened a new data center, the board of trustees held a meeting there, sitting among the rows of servers. That same board has a standing IT committee that meets every two months,...
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National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan will resign her post in June, after holding the Washington-based organization's top spot since 2006.
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The National Quality Forum released a tool designed to assist states, communities and others with the alignment of quality measures and public reporting.
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The National Quality Forum announced it has approved 14 palliative and end-of-life care measures covering areas such as patient and family experience, pain management and shortness of breath.
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HHS should define core concepts for measuring post-acute-care and long-term-care performance as a way to promote common measurement goals across all providers, according to a report from a group of public and private healthcare leaders.
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While healthcare's finest minds continue to wrestle over how to measure quality, the National Quality Forum lit a match near another potential powder keg by taking the first steps toward defining how to measure “value.”
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The not-for-profit organization tasked by the healthcare reform law with promoting comparative effectiveness research has spent the 16 months since its inception in the planning stages, building infrastructure and seeking feedback from clinicians and patients.
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The National Quality Forum has fallen short of many of the agreed-upon timeframes set forth in its original contract agreement with HHS, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Some federal performance measures are ready for prime time, but most need more work or should be eliminated altogether, according to an expert group convened by the National Quality Forum to provide feedback to HHS.
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The National Quality Forum has released 21 newly endorsed surgical-care measures, addressing procedures such as esophageal resection and coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
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