Performance Improvement

Expert Insights

Medical societies unite in campaign to reduce inappropriate use

January 13, 2012 | Blog | Cardiovascular Roundtable

Nine medical specialty societies, including the ACC and ASNC, have partnered with the ABIM Foundation and Consumer Reports to identify and curb waste in the health care system by proactively identifying various tests and procedures that are likely to be overused or misused.
Five areas of focus to improve quality

December 15, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Clinical Advisory Board

We’ve broken down the overwhelming task of developing a quality-driven enterprise into five manageable pillars.
Shift existing ED resources to meet an aging population’s needs

November 8, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Clinical Advisory Board

Learn how St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center restructured its ED to meet the needs of an aging population and realized a vast reduction in 72-hour ED return rates among geriatric patients—with minimal financial investment.

The New Economics of Quality, Part 1

October 04, 2011 | Study | Cardiovascular Roundtable

Learn how increased performance transparency, enhanced P4P and risk-based payment models, and the growing importance of evidence-based practice are re-defining “value” in cardiovascular care.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Popular Care Transitions Programs

August 30, 2011 | Study | Clinical Advisory Board

Reviews the primary outcomes of widely adopted care transitions programs, analyzes the benefits and shortcomings of existing models, and provides a perspective on future strategies for enhancing care transitions programs.
Building a Best-in-Class Quality Infrastructure

October 15, 2009 | Study | Clinical Advisory Board

Gain insight into how top-performing hospitals organize their quality function and learn how to transform your quality oversight group from a reactive, transactional unit to a proactive, interactive agent of change.

Customized Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Impact Assessment

February 9, 2011 | Tool | Financial Leadership Council

Leverages your institution's inpatient quality and financial data to estimate the potential revenue impact of your institution's quality performance under the methodology presented in CMS's hospital inpatient value-based purchasing program proposed rule.
Customized Readmissions Penalty Estimator

July 5, 2011 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board

Leverages your institution’s inpatient quality and financial data to estimate the potential revenue impact of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Quality Indicator Trender

July 13, 2010 | Tool | Clinical Advisory Board

Provides users with a way to rapidly compare an individual facility’s year-to-year Hospital Compare quality data for mortality and readmission metrics.

Building the coordinated acute care enterprise

January 6, 2012 | Infographic | Clinical Advisory Board

Learn metrics for evaluating care transition quality.
Hitting the metric but missing the point

September 1, 2011 | Video | Talent Development

Mike Wagner discusses why organizations that manage improvement efforts solely according to Key Performance Indicators are likely to struggle to maintain high performance.
Reducing unnecessary readmissions

February 1, 2011 | Video | Nursing Executive Center

Katherine Virkstis explores the renewed focus on preventing readmissions and outlines the major components of a successful readmissions reduction strategy.